Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, with potentially severe ecological consequences.
‘People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,’ says film’s director Avi Lewis.
We are living in a state of planetary emergency.
[I]t is virtually certain that our children will live in a 4° World before the century ends, unless greenhouse gas emissions are radically reduced soon.
Farmers are observing changes in rainfall, temperature and other patterns in weather that have spurred them into shifting their farming methods.
We are faced with a crisis caused by our separate minds — we believe we are distinct from other individuals and other forms of life.
So what’s behind the global momentum for divestment?
The effects of Climate Change as witnessed by a writer researching the ecosystem, history and plants of the Mojave Desert.
Why has this international approach been unsuccessful in sufficiently addressing climate change so far?
Movements provide visible demonstrations of people living out the new norms that they espouse.
As I write this, the bodies of hundreds of people are being pulled from the water off the coast of Libya, after two boats sank, drowning women, men, and children migrating in desperation from places like Syria, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa.
At the upcoming U.N. climate conference, most of the world’s major nations will pledge to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But serious doubts remain as to whether these promised cuts will be nearly enough to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.
