"If you give a damn about your children and your children's children, there is no room for scepticism, ignorance and denial about climate change.", says web editor and CWU member Chris Ingram.
"The fact is that climate change is upon us now, irrespective of the courses!
We know that green house gasses, fracking, deforestation and polar ice melting all add up to activities that human beings have caused.
The destruction of our planet's natural resources inevitably has a negative affect. The world's lungs, the rain forests, supply oxygen and absorb carbon.
Without them, the world will be uninhabitable for human beings!
It's the greatest threat that human beings have ever had to deal with!"
Now, in an attempt to make the issues accessible to all, Hollywood actors Harrison Ford, Matt Damon and Jessica Alba, together with some of the world’s most respected journalists explore the issues of climate change, bringing with it, the human face of climate change and intimate accounts of triumph and tragedy.
The film Years Of Living Dangerously attempts to take the viewer directly to the heart of the matter in an inspiring and cinematic documentary series from Executive Producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Being networked via the Showtime TV channel, the film consists of several episodes, and has its own dedicated website, here
Since 1991 Harrison Ford, actor, pilot, and environmentalist has been working as a strategic guide for Conservation International
Andrew Davies, Greenpeace International’s Digital mobilization and networking team leader said in a review of the TV writes:
‘In the opening episode, Harrison Ford travels to the rainforests of Indonesia to learn first hand about the struggle to protect forests.
The star is not new to the issue of deforestation, as he has served on the board of Conservation International for over 20 years. But this was a chance for him to see it up close.
It is indeed a bit like Indiana Jones as he flies on a NASA airplane taking samples, travels by boat into the jungle and confronts top Indonesian government officials. Very gung-ho!
While in the country, Ford also spent time with the head of Greenpeace’s Indonesia forest campaign, Bustar Maitar. The pair discussed the challenges organisations like Greenpeace, WWF and Rainforest Action Network face, consumer activism, how palm oil can be grown sustainably and why it should be.
In the past few months, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world had been calling on the US consumer goods company Proctor and Gamble to stop using palm oil from unsustainable sources in its products, which include Head and Shoulders. And they listened.
As have many of their competitors: Unilever, Nestlé, L’Oreal, Ferrero and Colgate-Palmolive. All of these companies, including Asia’s leading agribusiness group Wilmar, have committed to remove forest destruction from all of their products with full traceability for the palm oil it sources.
The celebrities, journalists, scientists and activists you’ll see in Years of Living Dangerously are doing their part. But really, it’s all of you that they’re counting on.’
The hour long film can be watched via YouTube here
Source: Greenpeace UK / Showtime / YouTube / unionsafety
