Did you know July 2019 was hottest month ever on record for the planet?
Can we reverse climate change?Green Initiatives' 109th documentary screening, Ice on Fire, explores the many ways we reduce carbon inputs to the atmosphere and, more important, how to "draw" carbon down, bringing CO2 out of the atmosphere and thus paving the way for global temperatures to go down.
Reversing climate change is urgent, given that the world passed 400 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere resulting in climate instability across the globe. We have heard the predictions but now climate related events are a daily reality - summer 2019 was the hottest on record, storms are stronger, droughts are longer, the arctic ice is thin or non-existent and antarctica is melting faster than predicted.
An annotated map of the world showing notable climate events that occurred around the world in July 2019. For details, see the short bulleted list below in our story (NOAA)
What does a warmer planet mean for all of us?In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report projecting average global surface temperatures to rise between 1.4 ℃ and 5.8℃ (roughly 2 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. Author, Mark Lynas outlines degree by degree what to expect from a warming world.
At 1℃, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost.
A 3℃ rise would spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, disappearance of Greenland's ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa.
A 6℃ increase would eliminate most life on Earth, including much of humanity.
”Six Degrees" by Mark Lynas
Through visiting visionaries and scientists young and old, the film explores the deep hope that we can turn away from the brink. And, just as we figure out drawdown, we face an added complexity, the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas in the arctic, that is now entering the atmsphere.
As the film says: 'Is it game over? Or is it game on? As we have at hand, the ability, the capacity, and solutions that can reverse global warming...not mitigate, not reduce, not stabilize, but reverse.'
Join our film screening to learn more and share your voice!
Produced by Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, George DiCaprio and Mathew Schmid and directed by Leila Conners, Ice on Fire is an eye-opening documentary that focuses on many never-before-seen solutions designed to slow down our escalating environmental crisis. The film goes beyond the current climate change narrative and offers hope that we can actually stave off the worst effects of global warming.
Eleven years after Conners’ first collaboration with DiCaprio on The 11th Hour, which emphasized the problems of climate change, Ice on Fire instead focuses on the cutting-edge research behind today’s climate science – and the innovations aimed at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, which could pave the way for a reduction in the global temperature rise and a benefit to the planet’s life systems.
Regular ￥50
Student ￥20
At-the-door ￥70
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Time & Location
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
19:00-21:00
EF Headquarters
258 Tongren Road, Near Yuyuan Road
Jingan Temple station
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