Time: Doors open 6 pm, Screening at 7 pm
Location: Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, 2118 So. 3rd just south of Sola Café and Kagy
Light refreshments and professional childcare provided!
Contact: Nate Podgajny- outreach@uccbozeman.org; Kristen Walser 406 551-0388, Bozeman@citizensclimatelobby.org
Don’t miss this encore screening of the Before the Flood climate documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio and National Geographic Dec. 1 at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, 2118 So. 3rd. The film presents a graphic account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
Sponsors Citizens’ Climate and Pilgrim Congregational will present ways to translate the inspiration from the film into local action before and after the film, including donations for Standing Rock and writing to Congress. Doors will open at 6 pm with light refreshments and displays. The screening starts at 7 pm. Professional childcare provided! Free and open to the public.
We’ll follow DiCaprio on a 3 year quest, from melting Greenland ice sheets, to bleached Pacific corals, and flooded crops in India, to see firsthand the global effects of warmer temperatures, erratic rainfall, pollution, and ocean acidification due to increased CO2 from our burning fossil fuels.
From interviews with scientists and activists, we see how corruption and misinformation has led to government inaction here and abroad. excessive resource use for raising beef and the burning of 80% of the Indonesian rainforest to plant palm plantations to feed our appetite for palm oil in everything from our snack foods to detergent.
“Our goal was for audiences to be informed and inspired to take action, to stand up and do their part to act as stewards for our shared planet,” says DiCaprio.
To that end, DiCaprio investigates solutions and calls for action: visiting with Elon Musk at his battery plant in Nevada and Harvard economist Greg Mankiw who promotes a carbon tax, viewing renewables in China, and offering the consumer choices of chicken over beef and excluding palm oil from our diet, to name a few.
Pope Francis, President Obama, Ban Ki Moon, scientist Michael Mann and many others weigh in on the importance of this issue.
For more information, contact Nate Podgajny- outreach@uccbozeman.org; Kristen Walser 406 551-0388, Bozeman@citizensclimatelobby.org
Facebook event page: http://bit.ly/BeforetheFloodBozeman
