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“Our main enemy right now is not our political opponents. Our main enemy now is physics…and we cannot make deals with physics,” Greta Thunberg told the U.S. House of Representatives in a speech during her visit to Washington, D.C.
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#WeCanSolveThis: Harnessing The Power of The Earth
Before John Wick was the co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, he was just trying to find a way to get rid of weeds on his ranch when he stumbled upon a powerful climate change solution. Then he learned about an approach to farming helps sequester carbon in the soil, and could be a major solution in the fight against climate change.
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How Alpaca Herders Adapt To Climate Change
Flavio and Ines’ family have been living off of alpacas for generations, but climate change is threatening their livelihood. Severe winter storms put their flock in danger. Thanks to The Red Cross and a strategy called “forecast-based financing,” communities like this one in Santa Lucia, Peru are getting the help they need before disaster hits.
Is Fighting Climate Change Bad For The Economy?
Some people say that fighting the climate crisis is going to ruin the economy. Hal Harvey, one of the world’s top energy and climate change experts, explains why that’s not the case.
Juliana v. United States: Meet The Kids Suing Over Climate Change
Juliana v. United States is a landmark climate lawsuit against the federal government of the USA, arguing it is depriving youth of their rights to a stable climate system. In September 2019, the young plaintiffs, aged 12 to 23, traveled to Washington, D.C. to get support for their suit from members of Congress and climate strike leader Greta Thunberg. This is their story.
Special thanks to Our Children’s Trust.
President Trump is attempting to open the largest forest in the United States, Tongass National Forest, to the logging industry, but the public has the chance to weigh in before he takes action.
One third of all global warming has been caused by just 20 companies, and now we know exactly who they are. Here’s what’s even worse: these companies have known their products created pollution that could change our global climate. In this installment of #BigOilKnew, we walk you through the timeline of climate change denial.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Exxon Knew
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Dr. Martin Hoffert during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on civil rights. Dr. Hoffert was commissioned by ExxonMobil to study climate change, and what he reveals about what the company has known for decades is truly staggering.
The Amazon Rainforest is on fire, plunging Sao Paolo, the largest city in South America, into darkness. But this isn’t a new problem. Fires in the rainforest have increased over 80% in 2019 compared to the prior year. Here’s what you need to know.
William Pendley: The Public Land Official Who Wants To Sell All Of America’s Public Lands
William Perry Pendley is a conservative lawyer and career bureaucrat. President Trump made him head of the Bureau of Land Management. But now that he’s in charge of America’s public lands, Pendley wants to sell them off to the highest bidder.
Are We Running Out Of Drinking Water?
You may have heard that the climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise and flooding like we’ve never seen before. But the biggest water problem brought on by climate change is not having enough to drink. Climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe explains how global warming is depleting several different sources of potable freshwater.
“Our main enemy right now is not our political opponents. Our main enemy now is physics…and we cannot make deals with physics,” Greta Thunberg told the U.S. House of Representatives in a speech during her visit to Washington, D.C.
Should I Have Kids?
In “An Uninhabitable Future,” author David Wallace-Wells paints a picture of a dark and frightening future that’s been destroyed by climate change. We wanted to know what’s the most common question he gets asked, and the answer surprised even us.
Birthstrike
Faced with the stark reality of the climate crisis, a growing movement of people are deciding not to have children. We spoke with Blythe Pepino, the founder of Birthstrike in the UK, and with Meghan Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli of Conceivable Future, a women-led network of Americans who come together to discuss the intersection of climate change and reproductive justice.
Why Are We Subsidizing Fossil Fuels?
Globally we are subsidizing the fossil fuel business to the tune of $5.3 trillion a year. Why do you think we’re giving these companies massive tax breaks when their products put our future in jeopardy? Journalist David Wallace-Wells, author of “The Uninhabitable Earth” explains.
#TimeToVoteOnClimate: Governing on Climate
President Trump may not be taking climate change seriously, but governors across the country are, and it’s making a difference.
The Climate Debate
The Democratic Party is holding twelve debates to decide the nominee for President, but it wont commit to making even one of them about the climate crisis. Voters and even some of the candidates are trying to change that.
Megan Boone: I’m A Climate Voter
You may know Megan Boone as an actor on The Blacklist. She’s also a mother, and she’s taking action to protect her daughter’s future by voting.
In 2017, the worst drought in 1,200 years was devastating California, diving farmers to the brink of disaster. Don Cheadle meets a family of farmers whose lives may never be the same as they struggle to find water in the parched Central Valley.
Jack Black takes a seat for a talk therapy session with psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren. They discuss the psychology of climate change. Can she help him?
David Letterman Goes to the Bank
Renewables are changing lives in rural India, as small businesses replace expensive, dirty, and unreliable diesel generators, with cheap, clean, sustainable solar energy. David Letterman visits one such business.
Climate Wars: Yemen
What happens to a society when people start running out of water? New York Times reporter Thomas Friedman went to Yemen to find out.
Obama’s Big Solution to Climate Change
We revisit our interview with Barack Obama from season 1 of Years of Living Dangerously in light of the environmental rollbacks enacted by the Trump administration. Thomas Friedman sat down with the then-President of the United States to discuss the world’s biggest problem, and the biggest way to solve it.
Environmental Racism is Bad for Your Brain
Jeremy Deaton interviews Harriet Washington, a medical ethicist and author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind and Beth Gardiner, author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.
The Need for EV Charging Stations
The number of electric vehicles hitting the road in the next ten years is expected to increase dramatically. Where are all those EVs going to charge up?
Climate Change Is Cooking Salmon in the Pacific Northwest
Meet a community that depends on salmon, and learn how their way of life is changing because of warming oceans.
These three members of Extinction Rebellion risked arrest in New York City to make a big statement about the climate crisis. We tell their story.
Strike With Us
Nine-year-old Hawkeye Huey calls for support for the global climate strike. Find a strike near you at strikewithus.org.
This video is a collaboration between Amplifier.org and Bemo Studio, and made possible by a grant from the David Rockefeller Fund.
The Nuclear Family
Nuclear plants are closing across New England, so why are these environmentalists rallying to their defense? The Years Project partnered with Exelon to find out.
Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear disaster in American history, but everything you’ve heard about it could be wrong.
Forty years later, The YEARS Project has partnered with Exelon to take a look back.
Rise: From One Island to Another
Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna use their poetry to showcase the linkages between their homelands in the face of climate change.
This is an invitation to take a few minutes to watch this film, unplug from your daily distractions, immerse yourself in the beauty of our shared home, and let the poetry heal.
Film made by Dan Lin for 350.org.
