AGE OF STUPID - FILM REMINDER

[dem...@clear.net.nz]

Dear people on the Transition Town list and fellow Greens

Please excuse any double postings  -  I have copied the Opotiki Film Club newsletter below - because I want to say the same thing to people on the Green and TT list!

And while I am here - I have totally lost a book by James Kunstler - A World Made by Hand - if you have this please let me know! Thanks very much - hope to see you at the movies!

Lynne

Dear Opotiki Film Club list people:  

I am wearing my 'climate change education' hat here.....  

The next film is not a 'Film Club' one - but is    a hugely important 'wake- up call' to save the planet from meltdown. Please don't think this film will be 'merely preaching to the converted' as someone told me. Some of us are already 'converted' to the urgency of action needed to stop species (including our own) destruction - but don't know what we can do. Millions of others are less bothered - and some still don't realise the full implications of rapid global warming.

Please bring  friends/neighbours/family who may be unconcerned or expecting that 'governments' and 'technology' will save us - this won't happen without our active participation.  I tried the film out on three 14 year olds staying last week- it held their attention throughout - one plans to ask his teacher to screen it for his school another wants to buy the DVD to show his family. The format is personal stories/events rather than the lecture approach of An Inconvenient Truth - very accessible. The       Age of Stupid    has the backing of every active climate change scientist/analyst/journalist (and the Guardian newspaper) in the western world.  

THE AGE OF STUPID

Friday October 16th at 6 30 pm  

Saturday October 17th at 2 00 pm and 5 00 pm  

Running time: 1 hour 40 mins  

You can e-book with me.  

You can also arrange a screening for a group of 15 - 42 people any time (day/evening week/weekend) that suits - contact me. Arrange for your club/class - discount rates.  

My in-box becomes chocka-block daily with messages from aid and environment organisations (and now scientists) about the urgent need to curb carbon/methane emissions immediately. If you have read this far, an example is the  abbreviated extract, below, from today's Mother Jones (US journal)......  

Regards - Lynne Dempsey  

Dear friend,  

On December 7, delegations from around the world will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate the most important climate treaty ever. But insiders are already warning that the best we can hope for, if there is a deal at all, is a treaty that will hold carbon levels in the atmosphere to 450 parts per million. Scientists like NASA's James Hansen have told us unequivocally that we must be under 350 ppm if we want to maintain a planet "similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted." We are now at 387 ppm.  

As Bill McKibben puts it in our upcoming special report, "Climate Countdown", "Climate change is not a future problem for wise statesmen to patiently work to avert. It's a right now, present tense, capital-E Emergency."  

...there is a dangerous disconnect between what we must do and what our politicians are doing to respond to this crisis.... We are collaborating with several of the nation's leading independent media organizations to tell the biggest and most urgent story of our time.  

... But this is a story that calls for reaching the widest possible audience, with the broadest possible range of tools. It's reporting as if the future depended on it....we (the editors) are both mothers of very young children. It is their future—and that of every child around the world—that is at stake now. They will judge us by how we tackled this problem. What will we tell them?  

 

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Lynne Dempsey