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Env. Day - A1 Climate Movie . . . C&C Jun 05, 2008 05:06 PDT Various C&C News World Environment Day [1] “The Age of Stupid” Simply the best film on climate change ever made. The 'Age of Stupid' was previewed to a selcted audience in London yesterday. This full-length climate docu-drama is certainly informative. It is also authentically hilarious yet gut-wrenching around the folly of our double standards on the global impacts of poverty and climate change - now and into the future. The film's grim prognosis is seen ‘retrospectively’ by the actor Peter Postlethwaite. He reviews the descent into the hell-on-earth of runaway climate change from a specially created ‘future-archive for a failed civilization' in the Artic Ocean. Picking up the words of a Katrina survivor he asks ‘how could we have been so stupid?’ The film recognises that the only serious proposal between now and that prognosis-come-true is C&C. As serious critical journalism, this film ranks with Naomi Klein, Robert Fiske and a host of eminent others. But for relevance it outranks them all as it understand the reality in the recent words about climate change of James Hansen: - “The stakes, for all life on the planet, surpass those of any previous crisis. The greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable.” An extraordinarily effective piece of work. If five-stars is tops this gets them all. The general release date has not yet been revealed. http://www.crudemovie.net/category/film All this goes straight to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change. The news from there is that the UK Climate Bill is back for 'debate' in the UK Parliament next week. Still without any coherent methodology behind its numbers for emissions control, it is said the Government want its 'Royal Assent' before summer recess [Mid July]. This UK 'uni-lateralism' is at odds with the debate beginning again in the US Senate where, the Liebermann 'Climate Act' notwithstanding, the demand for globality [this equals at least India and China on the accounts] hasn't gone away and the 'pragmatic' C&C answer to this stand-off has been upheld on both sides of that divide. We are now beyond climate denial. So the severe and worsening problem for us is 'picking emissions control numbers out-of-a-hat' . . . that don't add up now to a coherently safe and stable ppmv outcome. With Hansen calling for 350 ppmv [!] all out best local efforts will be wasted in the large global failure that attends this absence. As the film upholds, there is a way to address this - its called C&C. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [2] Fair Shares Fair Choice: - http://www.fairsharesfairchoice.com/ A brilliant local campaign in the UK South West specifically based on C&C: - http://www.fairsharesfairchoice.com/the_science.asp . . . . has reached the support figure of 1,000 MPs and Councillors etc. Here is the press release from Sustainability South West: - http://www.gci.org.uk/press/Fair_Shares_Press_Release.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [3] Nice new website for the indefatigable C&C champion Mayer Hillman: - http://www.mayerhillman.com/Articles/tabid/101/EntryID/51/Default.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [4] A very funny and very clever critique of Foot-printing/C&C at ‘Cheat Neutral’: - http://www.maxgladwell.com/2008/05/what-is-your-cheating-footprint/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [5] Some more C&C input to Government from: - http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file30864.pdf [Plaid Cymru] http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file30744.pdf [Brecon Beacons] http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file31378.pdf [Welsh Greens] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [6] Derek Wall of the UK Green Party – “C&C is Progress”! http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2008/06/permanent-revolution.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aubrey Meyer GCI 37 Ravenswood Road LONDON E17 9LY Ph 0208 520 4742