Climate Change Is Bigger Than Any Election: BEFORE THE FLOOD

I encouraged you in class to talk about this film with others after we watched it. Here is the link to watch Before The Flood through the National Geographic Channel (it's no longer streaming for free, but you're all resourceful and media savvy, so I'll leave the rest to you). Don't forget what you've seen. Share what you know.

Climate Change is the biggest topic of our time. Nearly every issue discussed during this election cycle is impacted by these global resource changes; our very survival as a species depends on us taking action. As you are aware, because there is a lag time with regard to weather and climate, and because it's not a clear and immediate danger, it's difficult for many people to see the real impacts of our actions as modifiers of Earth on a massive scale.

Movies like this make it easier for everyone to see places and impacts that are not easily seen by the average person; tar sands operations in Canada and melting glaciers in Greenland aren't something we can all hop in a car and see during a one-day field trip. That doesn't change the fact that "Mordor" is more real today than J.R.R. Tolkien could ever have imagined. Keep talking about it and keep holding your elected officials' feet to its fires--we cannot afford complacency in the face of Big Business interests. It doesn't matter how rich the oil barons or their respective countries are--if there's no one to buy their gas or their oil, if the climate becomes unlivable, they won't stay rich for long. Everyone will suffer together.

Let's not go there.

Physical Geography Lecture 10 - Global Climates 110916 from angelaorr