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Stephen Fry in Support of Extinction Rebellion: 'Something Has to be Done'
Stephen Fry in Support of Extinction Rebellion: 'Something Has to be Done'
National treasure, actor and comedian Stephen Fry called on the British public to support Extinction Rebellion. Speaking to camera Fry, said: “Reasonable people, I think, understand that something has to be done about fossil fuels, most of all about our insatiable appetite...
8 min
Why Capitalism Loves Disasters
Why Capitalism Loves Disasters
In this video essay, Our Changing Climate looks at why disaster capitalism exists and how it works. Specifically, they dive into the core principles behind disaster capitalism-- how crises are exploited to pass neoliberal policies, turn a profit, and privatize land and...
18 min
MILKED: White Lies In Dairy Land
MILKED: White Lies In Dairy Land (2022)
MILKED follows a young activist who goes deep into dairy land where he takes on the giants of New Zealand’s most powerful industry, and reveals how the sacred cash-cow industry has been milked dry. His journey exposes not only the sustainability crisis and the dangerous...
90 min
The Creative Genius of the Extinction Symbol Explained
The Creative Genius of the Extinction Symbol Explained
Here’s the story of how Extinction Rebellion's symbol spread around the world and became an icon in just a few years.
4 min
Why We Need Climate Hope
Why We Need Climate Hope
Radical climate hope, explained.
12 min
Megan Adams | A Journey Towards Zero Waste | A Million Voices #climatechange #zerowaste
Megan Adams | A Journey Towards Zero Waste | A Million Voices #climatechange #zerowaste (2021)
Every day we have the decision to positively impact the planet.
10 min
HAMBI - Fight For Hambach Forest | Vimeo on Demand
HAMBI - Fight For Hambach Forest | Vimeo on Demand (2019)
Transparent Film / ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel / Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
84 min
Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change?
Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change?
A critical review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
42 min
Your "Carbon Footprint" Is A Scam
Your "Carbon Footprint" Is A Scam
If you get tired of being told that climate change is all your fault because you eat meat, don't use paper straws, or drive a car, this video is for you. While there are things we can all do to reduce our personal greenhouse gas emissions, the idea of the "individual carbon...
18 min
Imprisoned Schools
Imprisoned Schools (2021)
Six hundred children from a Seine-Saint-Denis school group - nursery and elementary school - are currently threatened by a considerable increase in pollution due to new road infrastructure.
3 min
The Tipping Point that will DESTROY the World | George Monbiot
The Tipping Point that will DESTROY the World | George Monbiot
“I doubt that 1% of people really understand what we’re facing: the prospect of systematic environmental collapse” - George Monbiot
8 min
CASH-IN COP-OUT - The COP26 Glasgow Climate Summit
CASH-IN COP-OUT - The COP26 Glasgow Climate Summit (2021)
CASH-IN COP-OUT tells how Glasgow’s COP26 climate summit notched-up yet another year of talks that failed to find a solution to the climate emergency. Thousands converged at COP26 with polarised objectives. Businesses sought deals to cash-in from the climate crisis. Thousands...
12 min
"The Worst Flood in Living Memory" - Yangshuo, China | June 2020
"The Worst Flood in Living Memory" - Yangshuo, China | June 2020
In June 2020, Yangshuo experienced its worst natural climate change disaster to date. Water poured into this beautiful tourist town from two nearby rivers, with shocking consequences. The area received the highest amount of rainfall recorded in 200 years. The "worst flood in...
7 min
Howey Ou | China's 17 YEAR OLD Fights For YOUR Future
Howey Ou | China's 17 YEAR OLD Fights For YOUR Future
Howey Ou, 欧泓奕 is a 17 year old climate activist. She is also the bravest person I have ever met. Every Friday, as part of FFF (Fridays for future), she participates in youth climate activism, heading to streets of China to advocate for Climate Change. As well as this, she...
14 min
Can Indigenous Knowledge Save the World?
Can Indigenous Knowledge Save the World?
Indigenous peoples are among the worst affected by rainforest deforestation. What can art do in the face of this destruction? We show solutions from Cameroon, plus how artists in Brazil are fighting to save the Amazon. The rainforest is on fire. Profiteering and greed are...
26 min
Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta)
Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta)
The Government™ has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
4 min
COP 26: End the Cynicism and Denial
COP 26: End the Cynicism and Denial (2021)
The global elites call for technology and market “solutions” they know will not reach the necessary targets. They are condemning human society to its demise. A mass movement to demand real solutions is urgently needed. Patrick Bond and Paul Jay discuss the climate crisis on...
43 min
Jane and the Dark Cloud: An Animation about Systems Change
Jane and the Dark Cloud: An Animation about Systems Change (2021)
Beautiful short animated film, that through the story of Jane and Dan, empowers audiences and grass roots campaigners with an understanding of what 'system change', means. It shows what a truly system changing Green New Deal could look like in the UK and beyond after COVID...
6 min
How Militarism Fuels The Climate Crisis — And Vice Versa
How Militarism Fuels The Climate Crisis — And Vice Versa
True climate solutions must have antimilitarism at their core.
Lorah Steichen, Lindsay Koshgarian
Why This Gives Me Hope for the Future
Why This Gives Me Hope for the Future
Why Solarpunk gives me hope for the future.
12 min
How We Can Make Solarpunk A Reality
How We Can Make Solarpunk A Reality
Solarpunk is a vision of the future that we can implement today. Here are just a few ways to get started! 
23 min
How We Fix the Climate
How We Fix the Climate
We should act as if this is an emergency, because it is. But part of that is understanding the tools and strategies countries are using to decarbonize and stabilize the climate. This is work that's already being done. We have already decoupled economic growth from the...
17 min
How to Pay for the Green New Deal | Levy Economics Institute | Working Paper No. 931
How to Pay for the Green New Deal | Levy Economics Institute | Working Paper No. 931
The title mimics that of J. M. Keynes’s (1940) famous book, How to Pay for the War: A Radical Plan for the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray
Imperialism in the Anthropocene | Monthly Review July-August 2019
Imperialism in the Anthropocene | Monthly Review July-August 2019
On May 21, 2019, the Anthropocene Working Group, established by the Subcommision on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, voted by more than the necessary 60 percent to recognize the existence of the Anthropocene epoch in geological time...
John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman and Brett Clark
Michael Hoexter: Politically Fashionable Carbon Gradualism Vs. Reality | Naked Capitalism
Michael Hoexter: Politically Fashionable Carbon Gradualism Vs. Reality | Naked Capitalism
Posted on July 11, 2013 by Yves Smith
Michael F. Hoexter
Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial
Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial
Posted on September 7, 2016
Michael Hoexter, Ph.D.
The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report
The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report
Second Thought explains the IPCC's new climate report.
17 min
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage
The Australien Government has made an ad about Carbon Capture and Storage, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
5 min
Death by Pollution
Death by Pollution (2021)
Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right. This Novara Doc was made by black &...
10 min
How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot
How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot
“They allowed this entire shitfest to happen"
10 min
Media and Climate
Media and Climate
There is no conclusive proof that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. In fact, every year we are offered more and more evidence that he actually does exist. If not, where are all those gifts coming from?
Eamonn Kelly
Why Big Oil Loves to Talk about Your Carbon Footprint
Why Big Oil Loves to Talk about Your Carbon Footprint
Everybody keeps telling us to cut our carbon footprints. So how guilty should I feel about my personal emissions? And what's Big Oil got to do with it? We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.
13 min
Why the United States Is Killing the World
Why the United States Is Killing the World
Why United States imperialism is causing climate change, explained.
13 min
Why your Carbon Footprint is a Scam
Why your Carbon Footprint is a Scam
Why your carbon footprint is a scam, explained.
11 min
Big Oil Coined ‘Carbon Footprints’ to Blame Us for Their Greed. Keep Them on the Hook.
Big Oil Coined ‘Carbon Footprints’ to Blame Us for Their Greed. Keep Them on the Hook.
Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action
Rebecca Solnit
'Widespread and Severe.' The Climate Crisis Is Here, but There’s Still Time to Limit the Damage
'Widespread and Severe.' The Climate Crisis Is Here, but There’s Still Time to Limit the Damage
BY MICHAEL E. MANN | AUGUST 9, 2021 5:00 AM EDT
Michael E. Mann
Realclimate: A Tale of Two Hockey Sticks
Realclimate: A Tale of Two Hockey Sticks
Posted: 9 Aug 2021
Michael E. Mann
Realclimate: We Are Not Reaching 1.5ºC Earlier Than Previously Thought
Realclimate: We Are Not Reaching 1.5ºC Earlier Than Previously Thought
 
Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, and Piers Forster
Realclimate: AR6 of the Best | 9 Aug 2021
Realclimate: AR6 of the Best | 9 Aug 2021
Half a dozen takeaways from a first read of the new IPCC AR6 report.
Gavin Schmidt
Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People
Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People
Not all humans are equally culpable in the climate chaos outlined in the latest IPCC report. Identifying the rich and powerful as the principal culprits is key to stopping further destruction.
Chris Saltmarsh
How to Think About International Responsibility for Climate Change ❧ Current Affairs | filed 03 August 2021 in CLIMATE CHANGE
How to Think About International Responsibility for Climate Change ❧ Current Affairs | filed 03 August 2021 in CLIMATE CHANGE
We need to begin with the recognition that the United States has been more responsible for the climate catastrophe than anyone else. We have inflicted costs on the rest of the world that they rightly resent us for.
Nathan J. Robinson
Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come | Aug 27, 2019
Jeff Goodell
The disastrous Economics of Climate Change, with Prof. Steve Keen | Nucleus Investment Insights
The disastrous Economics of Climate Change, with Prof. Steve Keen | Nucleus Investment Insights (2020)
Prof. Steve Keen joins us to discuss his work on the disastrous economics of climate change, in which he contends numerous errors have been made in calculating the economic effects of climate change. Correcting for these errors makes it feasible that the economic damages from...
76 min
Global warming: planning not pricing - July 22, 2021
Global warming: planning not pricing - July 22, 2021
Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming and destructive climate change.  For some time, the IMF has been pushing for carbon pricing as ‘a necessary if not...
Michael Roberts
Desert Apocalypse: How Solar Projects Affect Desert Habitats
Desert Apocalypse: How Solar Projects Affect Desert Habitats (2022)
The award-winning film series Desert Apocalypse is back for a second season. In this episode we travel to the Pahrump Valley and up to Beatty, Nevada to look at the landscapes threatened by solar. In the Pahrump Valley at the Yellow Pine Solar project site, we see a few...
15 min
Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — so Far
Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — so Far
The Green New Deal program has enormous potential to generate mass popular support. But absent real leverage from labor, it's likely to be continually watered down into a toothless slogan for NGOs.
Matt Huber
Neoliberalism Won’t Take Real Action to Stop Climate Change
Neoliberalism Won’t Take Real Action to Stop Climate Change
At least 185 people have been killed by floods centered on the Rhineland region. Despite Germany’s supposed green credentials, the weak political response to the disaster shows how unwilling neoliberals are to take real action against corporate polluters.
ALEXANDER BRENTLER
Extinction Rebellion’s Liberal Moralism Can’t Save the Planet
Extinction Rebellion’s Liberal Moralism Can’t Save the Planet
Catapulted to media attention by its stunts, Extinction Rebellion has wasted its platform on a message of individualized guilt and obedience to the powerful. To avert climate disaster, we need economic transformation, not pointless moralism.
MARK MONTEGRIFFO
As scientists have long predicted, warming is making heatwaves more deadly
As scientists have long predicted, warming is making heatwaves more deadly
Twenty years ago the IPCC warned of summer heatwave deaths in unprepared temperate regions like the Pacific Northwest.
DANA NUCCITELLI
Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
"Plastic pollution, explained. In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at an aspect of plastic pollution that often is ignored in the face of plastic pollution in the ocean. While ocean plastic pollution is an important issue, plastic is actually a fossil fuel...
13 min
Writer on the Storm | Andrew Schenker | July 14
Writer on the Storm | Andrew Schenker | July 14
George R. Stewart’s ecofictions forecasted today’s calamities
Andrew Schenker
Why Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Fraud ❧ Current Affairs - filed 20 April 2021
Why Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Fraud ❧ Current Affairs - filed 20 April 2021
Speculators might make money on it, but the arguments for its usefulness fail completely.
Nathan J. Robinson
LEAKED: Exxon REVEALS Black Book of Senators
LEAKED: Exxon REVEALS Black Book of Senators (2021)
An ExxonMobil lobbyist accidentally admitted how they undermine climate science, and which Senators they love giving money to. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/tyt/live
21 min
Exxon Admits Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis ❧ Current Affairs - filed 05 July 2021
Exxon Admits Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis ❧ Current Affairs - filed 05 July 2021
The company’s own Washington representative admits that we cannot solve the crisis without doing away with Exxon.
Nathan J. Robinson
How Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet)
How Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet)
"In this video essay, I look at why capitalism is killing us (and the planet) by causing climate change. Specifically, I look at how capitalism's multinationals like ExxonMobil and BP are responsible for increased emissions and ultimately the climate crisis we are living...
14 min
Biden’s Climate Irresponsibility ❧ Current Affairs
Biden’s Climate Irresponsibility ❧ Current Affairs
It would be nice if having a Democratic president automatically meant real action on climate change. Sadly, it isn’t true.
David Lapp Jost
Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action | Our Broken Planet
Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action | Our Broken Planet
At times it can be overwhelming to contemplate the challenges we face in the Anthropocene, from the climate crisis to biodiversity loss. The hurdles in the way of a sustainable future can sometimes feel insurmountable - but each of us is capable of making a difference.
63 min
Sir David Attenborough Presents: Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet | Doc Preview
Sir David Attenborough Presents: Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet | Doc Preview
Breaking Boundaries tells the story of the most important scientific discovery of our time - that humanity has pushed Earth beyond the boundaries that have kept Earth stable for 10,000 years, since the dawn of civilization. The 75-minute film takes the audience on a journey...
11 min
Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels
Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels
This is an awful idea, but I’m writing about bloody Bitcoin again. I recently published a long thread about it, in which I tried to debunk the claim that the process of generating new bits of this digital currency is environmentally beneficial (it is not).
Ketan Joshi ([email protected])
Climate Change Babies
Climate Change Babies (2021)
Climate Change Babies is an inspiring film for trailblazing parents around the world. During the Covid-19 pandemic, courageous and articulate moms, parents and grandparents from British Columbia , Canada are organizing and exchanging profound information about climate change...
45 min