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Double feature movies look at climate change
August 16th, 2013
[by Greg Rzesniowiecki]
The Motueka climate change action group The Renewables are hosting a double-bill movie night at Community House next Friday to look at two initiatives to tackle carbon use.
You don't like the idea of an oil or gas company fracking your environment. You don't have many resources. You know that the extraction besides making a mess of the local area is contributing to planetary destruction. You sit on your hands, or you rise up and act?
On December 19, 2008, Tim De Christopher disrupted a highly disputed Utah BLM Oil and Gas lease auction, effectively safeguarding thousands of acres of pristine Utah land that were slated for oil and gas leases.
Not content to merely protest outside, Tim entered the auction hall and registered as bidder #70. He outbid industry giants on land parcels which were adjacent to a national park, winning 22,000 acres of land worth $1.7 million before the auction was halted. "Bidder 70" is this story.
"Do the Math" is the larger story about why Tim's action is the act of a hero. His initiative must be placed in the context of saving the biocapacity of Planet Earth.
Bill McKibben in this film details with clinical precision the precarious balance. Burn the coal and doom the globe to dramatic climate change. We already have a changed climate, how extreme do we want to allow it to become?
Together Bill and Tim the global and the local activist share their view and offer creative activity to head off disaster.
The double feature will play at Motueka Community House from 7:00pm on Friday 23rd August, $5.00 admission.
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