Marquette, MI – The Building Hope in Uncertain Times series continues with a documentary film screening of “Do The Math” on Monday, February 22 at 7:00 pm at the Peter White Public Library in the Community room.
This film follows American environmentalist, author, and journalist, Bill McKibben’s fight against climate change. McKibben states is that the math is simple: we can emit 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. Yet, burning the fossil fuel that corporations now have in their reserves would result in emitting 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide — five times the safe amount and fossil fuel companies are planning to burn it all.
McKibben has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is a distinguished scholar at Middlebury College and is the leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org. He has written a dozen books about the environment since 1989. Through 350.org, McKibben has organized simultaneous worldwide demonstrations and global events raising awareness of the dangers of climate change, one of those being the campaign against the Keystone XL Pipeline.
An inductee of the literature section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bill McKibben has received the Gandhi Peace Award and been named to Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the 100 most important global thinkers. The Boston Globe referred to McKibben as “probably the nation’s leading environmentalist” and Time magazine’s book reviewer Bryan Walsh named him “the world’s best green journalist”.
“Do the Math” was released in 2013, is not rated and runs for 50 minutes. Following the film, a Q & A on climate change issues will be led by Kevin Crupi, National Weather Service Climate Program Manager (www.weather.gov/mqt) and Greyson Morrow, Citizens Climate Lobby Member (citizensclimatelobby.org).
The Building Hope program series is based on the anthology The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times edited by Paul Rogat Loeb, and offers a variety of events to inspire, encourage and create positive change within our community.
There is no admission charge thanks to sponsorship by the Marquette County Community Foundation, PWPL Friends and Carroll Paul Memorial Trust Fund of the Peter White Public Library, and the Emerick Family Fund of the Marquette County Community Foundation.
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