The potential for job creation is huge, but it will take public involvement and often control.
(456-57)"The only transformation of comparable scope, Klein argues, was the abolition of slavery.
Looking for movie tickets? (252)"… the profits from our dirtiest industries must be diverted into the grand and hopeful project of cleaning up their mess. (405)"… developing countries [are] owed a debt for the inherent injustice of climate change—the fact that wealthy countries had used up most of the atmospheric capacity for safely absorbing CO"This, of course, is the core of the argument for the existence of a ‘climate debt’ …" (409)"The truth is—and this is a humbling thing for cultures accustomed to assuming that our actions shape the destiny of the world to accept—the real battle will not be lost or won by us. "In other words, we are products of our age and of a dominant ideological project. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions. (178)"… the deeper message carried by the ecological crisis—that humanity has to go a whole lot easier on the living systems that sustain us, acting regeneratively rather than extractively—is a profound challenge to large parts of the left as well as the right. Left to its own, it will grind every bit of value out of the earth and our labors. (314) The expansion of fracking and other extractive activities has galvanized the new climate movement. (152)"… the climate moment [the urgent need for bold action] offers an overarching narrative in which everything from the fight for good jobs to justice for migrants to reparations for historical wrongs like slavery and colonialism can all become part of the grand project of building a nontoxic, shockproof economy before it’s too late. A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
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This movie changes NOTHING, because it's too much doom and gloom, with only few positive solutions offered. (156)There "are encouraging signs, … Yet the kind of counter-power that has a chance of changing society on anything close to the scale required is still missing.… most leftists and liberals are still averting their eyes, having yet to grasp that climate science has handed them the most powerful argument against unfettered capitalism since William Blake’s ‘dark Satanic Mills’ blackened England’s skies …. “This Changes Everything gets the science right, but it’s about much more than facts and figures. Excerpts from the book are shown with page references in parentheses.
(451)"My movement heroes right now are a Bay Area [East Bay] group called Movement Generation — check them out: "… lowering global emissions in line with climate scientists’ urgent warnings demands changes of a truly daunting speed and scale. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. (25)""So this book proposes a different strategy: think big, go deep, and move the ideological pole far away from the stifling market fundamentalism that has become the greatest enemy to planetary health.
Get started. Climate activists need to take a similarly clear moral stance. A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.