It’s not every day that you meet a man prophesied to save the world. Wanting to be respectful, I asked Patrick McCollum how he prefers to be addressed.

“Patrick is fine,” he says over Zoom. “I’m Reverend Patrick. I’m His Excellency Patrick.” (I stuck with Patrick.)

McCollum is the subject of Gabe Polsky’s film, The Man Who Saves the World?

As it always should, punctuation matters. It’s no spoiler to say there’s a lack of evidence that McCollum has succeeded, given the world’s current state. But as shown in Polsky’s earnest film, he’s certainly trying.

For McCollum, it’s a sacred mission.

It was foretold among Amazon Indigenous peoples that a man with a round face, blue eyes, and gray or little hair would come to unite them to save the rain forest.

Some believe McCollum is that man.

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