Comments on: Very Important New Documentary: Years of Living Dangerously https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/06/very-important-new-documentary-years-of-living-dangerously/ Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Smarter Than Your Average Bear https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/06/very-important-new-documentary-years-of-living-dangerously/#comment-479575 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:23:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19268#comment-479575 “This is THE ISSUE of the 21st century. If human minds cannot deal with this one, we deserve to go extinct.”

Pretty much right on Helga

]]> By: Helga Vierich https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/06/very-important-new-documentary-years-of-living-dangerously/#comment-479574 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:34:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19268#comment-479574 I watched the whole thing… heart-breaking and real. It brings home very carefully how climate change is already creating chaos and it is only going to get worse. And corruption, in concert with the primacy of selfish business interests and political power struggles, and the fact that people cannot in each region in crisis cannot seem to connect the dots.

We have some new heroic figures and some old ones – Katherine Hawhoe, both a top climate scientists and a Christian, Harrison Ford, digging into the corrupt Forest Ministry practices that are selling the last forests of Indonesia to big palm oil companies, and so many others… these seem at first unrelated stories, but they document the first salvos of a worldwide period of drought, fires, storms and economic and social upheaval, of danger and starvation, and revolution… this cannot be easy to watch, but anyone who does not take all this seriously, is not protected by ignorance… we are all in this mess together.

Take away message: avoid all products with palm oil.
Speak out about climate change, and debunk the lies when they are spoken, especially by politicians.

This is THE ISSUE of the 21st century. If human minds cannot deal with this one, we deserve to go extinct.

]]> By: Smarter Than Your Average Bear https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/04/06/very-important-new-documentary-years-of-living-dangerously/#comment-479573 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:53:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19268#comment-479573 Bugger I don’t get Showtime either – not available here.

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