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How do you get people to do something about climate change? For years, the answer has been to prod people into thinking about their role in causing it, to guilt trip them into action. Because any human who happens to live in North America has taken advantage of central...
Heather Smith · 1,968 views · unrated
Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth
Jo Confino · 1,945 views · unrated
If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car.
But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice...
Rebecca Solnit · 1,908 views · unrated
Our society is living within a massive lie. The lie says, “Everything is fine and we should proceed with business as usual. We are not destroying our climate and, with it, our stability and our civilization. We are not committing passive suicide.”
Margaret Klein · 1,904 views · unrated
There was a time in the distant past — call it the late 2000s — when infographics seemed like a good idea. You can pack all kinds of info into a visually appealing file that’s easy to share! What could go wrong?
David Roberts · 1,900 views · 5 stars
All things die and all things live forever;
But our task is to die,
To die making roads,
Roads over the sea.
– Antonio Machado
Recently a reader of my website asked me to clarify the difference between resignation and surrender. When faced with catastrophic...
Carolyn Baker · 1,796 views · unrated
Despite almost universal scientific consensus that climate change poses a growing threat, President Donald Trump’s recent infrastructure plan makes no mention of the need to build resilience to rising global temperatures. Instead, it actually seeks to weaken environmental...
Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick and Maxwell Palmer · 1,796 views · unrated
Forty years ago, the legendary actor Robert Redford starred in one of the most celebrated journalism films of all time: "All The President's Men." Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate...
8 min · 1,751 views · 5 stars
"The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far."
Lauren McCauley · 1,715 views · 4.8 stars
The steps needed to rapidly decarbonize our economy (the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change) will never be taken in a capitalist system.
29 min · 1,567 views · 5 stars
A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
Marty Kaplan · 1,563 views · unrated
This week we re-think our critique of the People's Climate March, then we go to Germany where trouble makers have been regularly shutting down Europe's largest source of CO2. Then on to Greece, to look at a growing resistance against a gold mine and finally to the longest...
7 min · 1,542 views · 2.5 stars
In this video essay, I look at how the rich really cause climate change. Specifically, I look at how the focus on the richest people in the world's consumption habits (i.e. our obsession with Taylor Swift's jet emissions) distracts us from how they make their money in the...
21 min · 1,486 views · unrated
Lots of people eagerly study all the polls and reports on how many people believe that climate change is real and urgent. They seem to think there is some critical mass that, through the weight of belief alone, will get us where we want to go. As if when the numbers aren’t...
Rebecca Solnit · 1,441 views · 5 stars
Do you have complicated feelings about fossil fuels?
10 min · 1,389 views · unrated
I recently got an email from a friend, asking me to take a look at an alternative way of thinking about greenhouse gases. He forwarded a link to a long scroll of a webpage dense with text. My friend said he hardly understood it “beyond the fact that it refutes the science of...
Nathanael Johnson · 1,349 views · unrated
“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by “environmental problems.” Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that...
Julia Adeney Thomas · 1,326 views · 4 stars
There's overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change; 97 percent of scientists agree that humans have created conditions that are drastically reshaping the planet's climate, with disastrous results, and one scientist noted in September 2018 that the scientific...
JR Thorpe · 1,166 views · unrated
It’s very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people.
Bill McKibben · 1,152 views · unrated
"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to...
23 min · 1,030 views · unrated
We are in the process of burning ourselves and many of the beings on Earth right out of existence. Overwhelming. Unbelievable. Wildly inconvenient. Weirdly difficult to take in. But true. We are.
David Goldstein · 945 views · unrated
Drought, forest fires and increasingly frequent storms. Climate change is destroying our forests. All over the world, people are looking for ways to keep them from dying out. Yet nature itself knows best what forests need to thrive.
26 min · 767 views · unrated
Watch the film before watching this. It's a spoiler-heavy review and breakdown of the ending to ‘Parasite,’ the Korean thriller that everyone’s talking about.
16 min · 729 views · unrated
Climate Change doesn't have to scare the Emojis out of you.
12 min · 289 views · unrated
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 · 5,028 views · unrated
A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight traveling around the world...
3 min · 7,250 views · unrated
Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive...
Steven Gorelick · 14,566 views · 5 stars
Coal pollution is the single biggest driver of climate change on the planet. It's causing more and more extreme weather and pushing the world's poorest people into poverty and hunger. If we keep burning fossil fuels at the rate we are now, climate change could push 50...
1 min · 1,713 views · 4.2 stars
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at climate hypocrisy and carbon guilt. Specifically, I dig into why I don't care about your flight emissions, and how our attention to individual carbon footprints and worries about being seen as hypocritical...
24 min · 1,549 views · unrated
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges · 8,449 views · 5 stars
I'm in Paris now, preparing to speak tonight about climate change. It is a parallel venue, not mainstream, called Place 2 B, but even here I am afraid my message is going to be controversial. You see, I think there are deep problems with the standard climate change narrative...
Charles Eisenstein · 3,502 views · 5 stars
Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst...
127 min · 12,804 views · 5 stars
Are you worried about climate change? What if we could actually do something really effective right now to halt it? In this short 3 minute film, WeForest shows how permaculture, and more broadly, preserving, expanding, and re-growing the world's forests may be the "first...
3 min · 15,940 views · 3.6 stars
Bill Nye is interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News to talk about climate change and research to identify the cause of the cognitive dissonance in those who deny the evidence that the current rate of climate change is man-made. What happens is an object lesson in media...
9 min · 45,028 views · 5 stars
David Milarch is an arborist from central Michigan. In 1991, Milarch had a near death experience that inspired a personal quest – to archive the genetics of the world's largest trees before they're gone and to replant global forests to fight climate change. This is the story...
11 min · 15,952 views · 4.5 stars
This is a love song like you've never heard before. Join Charles Dance, David Gyasi, Miranda Richardson, Elbow and people across the country in coming together to protect all we hold dear from climate change. Watch, share, #ShowTheLove. Together we can protect the places and...
3 min · 6,894 views · 4.5 stars
Do you agonize over the little venial eco-sins of everyday life? Every gallon of gas, every extra minute of a hot shower, each flush?
Eric Moll · 3,880 views · 4 stars
Based on what we know from the most recent climate science, Obama’s "all-of-the-above" energy policy is actually suicidal.
Are there any self-respecting environmental organizations out there that are still behind President Obama? After his State of the Union on Tuesday...
Tara Lohan · 3,149 views · unrated
Large hydropower projects are often propagated as a "clean and green" source of electricity by international financial institutions, national governments and other actors. They greatly benefit from instruments meant to address climate change, including carbon credits under...
7 min · 2,416 views · 4.2 stars
Director Ray Kocur leads you through a thorough (and accessible) study of current climate change research, speaking with a dozen of Canada's foremost climate scientists as well as historians and civil rights activists to gain perspectives on the past, present and future of...
71 min · 7,940 views · 4.2 stars
In this video essay, we look at how climate change is causing a decrease in biodiversity worldwide. Biodiversity is a measure of the variety and variability of life, and climate change is causing the decline of biodiversity in numerous ecosystems via extreme weather...
9 min · 3,096 views · unrated
There is an elephant in the climate debate that by U.S. demand cannot be discussed or even seen. This agreement to ignore the elephant is now the accepted basis of all international negotiations on climate change.
It is well understood by every possible measurement that the...
Sara Flounders · 7,454 views · 4.8 stars
Yesterday was August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
Three things of note happened. The first is that a record Arctic ice melt had just been announced by the scientists studying the region. The 2012 figure has not only beaten...
George Monbiot · 4,933 views · unrated
My new film How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change debuted on HBO June 27th.
Josh Fox · 1,868 views · unrated
How we end consumerism, explained.
12 min · 3,779 views · unrated
"Occupy Sandy," which debuted at a surprise outdoor screening above a gas station in Lower Manhattan on Nov. 28, documents the Occupy movement's volunteer efforts to assist the most hard-hit New Yorkers in the wake of last month's storm.
24 min · 9,870 views · 4.8 stars
"Greedy Lying Bastards" investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem that is placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people...
2 min · 12,329 views · 4.5 stars
Young people across the United States are suing the federal government en masse for destroying their futures. They're claiming the feds' bungling of a crucial issue is a violation of their constitutional rights.
Tom McKay · 16,180 views · 4.5 stars
In Under the Surface, a special Guardian film, the award-winning writer and environmental campaigner Naomi Klein travels to the Great Barrier Reef with her son, Toma, to see the impact of coral bleaching caused by climate change. In a personal but also universal story, Klein...
10 min · 7,847 views · 5 stars
In the first of a series of four videos Danny Chivers, author of the New Internationalist No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change, gives a whistle-stop tour of the science and impacts of climate change. Check out www.nononsensevideos.org for references on everything in the video...
4 min · 2,385 views · 5 stars
A film by brother/sister duo, Sam and Kate Fulbright to take a closer look at what climate change really means in the United States, and dive beyond the daunting numbers and graphs to meet the people and communities effected by the problem of climate change.
56 min · 10,733 views · 4.3 stars
Humanity has lost the battle against climate change. That is what Paul Kingsnorth thinks. The former environmental activist believes that we can´t stop climate change anymore. How should we live on knowing that climate change is a fact that can´t be denied anymore? A...
50 min · 3,181 views · 5 stars
Ecosophia means ecological wisdom in Greek and this documentary explores the meta-crisis and interrelation between energy, the laws of thermodynamics, the economy, resources, exponential growth, climate change, population, psychology and degrowth solutions.
77 min · 1,309 views · 5 stars
We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil
Rebecca Solnit · 2,578 views · 4.5 stars
On May 13 the American news media reported that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had recruited U.S. Republican Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota—a major oil drilling state—to help him draft his energy policy. Cramer has said he does not believe...
Richard Heinberg · 36,280 views · 4.5 stars
Twenty thousand worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet from climate change. Behind closed doors, these delegates have to negotiate on the first global climate change agreement by the...
85 min · 1,394 views · unrated
Hope in a Changing Climate optimistically reframes the debate on global warming. Illustrating that large, decimated eco-systems can be restored, the BBC World documentary reveals success stories from Ethiopia, Rwanda and China which prove that bringing large areas back from...
29 min · 21,037 views · 4.1 stars
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 · 1,280 views · 4 stars
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the...
2 min · 3,263 views · 5 stars
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon took place two days later with the participation of 100...
Pablo Solon · 2,686 views · 4 stars