This is Ross Harrison. At 18, he is writer, director and star of Beyond the Brink, a short documentary that asks whether we really are responsible for climate change and whether we care anyway. We invited Ross to come to Stretton for this showing but unfortunately he was on a field trip this week. A Stretton Climate Care member partly sponsored the film, so we got an early opportunity to show it.
As Ross says, “Telling people ‘Climate change is the biggest threat our world has known’ has not persuaded many to rise to the challenge. There needs to be a new message..”
http://www.r-harrison.com/new-project
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Alison Thomas says
Dear Stretton Climate Care
Thanks for showing Ross Harrison's film last Friday evening - I found it to be inspiring and came away more determined to raise the profile of climate action but took on board the need to talk outside the realm of environmentalism!
Alison Thomas
Bridges
ecowarrior says
As Alison wrote, it was an inspiring film and we had a good discussion afterwards much of which centred around why it is so hard to get the younger generation interested in the subject. There were a few under 40's in the audience but mostly we were the grey and wrinkly brigade. Most of us will be long gone by the time predicted temperature rises are upon us and it will be this younger generation who will have to cope with the consequences. I'd like to suggest Mark Lynas's book Six Degrees ought to be compulsory reading for all English Literature students. His description of the consequences of each further degree of global temperature rise is quite disturbing.
It should be the under 30's who stand outside the Co-op on a Saturday morning urging folk to take action not us of the rocking chair generation.
Statistics tell us lots of people log on this site from all over the world so let's get a debate going and get some answers. What can we do to get the younger generation motivated to take action?
Ecowarrior
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