Four Films to Help Raise Awareness About Global Warming & Climate Denial
“We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell. And the truth is, we have control of the wheel.”
— UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
As killer heat waves, extreme wildfires, and devastating floods continue to wreak havoc around the globe, a new report has found that fossil-fuel consumption and emissions are at all-time highs.¹ It’s no wonder scientists and international institutions like the UN have been issuing increasingly dire warnings that the world is on a “highway to climate hell.”²
If you’re an educator or activist looking for teaching tools that shine a light on how fossil fuel consumption, hyper-consumerism, corporate propaganda, and industry-driven climate denial are accelerating global warming and putting us on a collision course with full-scale planetary collapse, don’t miss the four MEF titles below. You can get all of these films in a variety of formats. Browse and click below for more information.
1. “Fossil fuel use, emissions hit records in 2023, report says,” by Robert Harvey, Reuters, June 20, 2024.
2. “Hopeless and broken: Why the world’s scientists are in despair,” The Guardian, May 8, 2024.
THE BURDEN
A Film about the U.S. Military & the Fight Against Climate Change
“Students of climate change and policy makers across the political spectrum will be astounded to learn the impact of oil dependence on our military and our national security. The film should be required viewing for every member of Congress who purports to support the military but opposes supporting alternatives to fossil fuels.”
— Maria Savasta-Kennedy | Professor of Environmental Law at UNC School of Law
“An outstanding and enormously important film that breaks through the partisan rhetoric that has stymied long overdue efforts to address the compelling issue of climate change.”
— Richard Lazarus | Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
ADVERTISING AT THE EDGE OF THE APOCALYPSE
A Film About Advertising, Consumerism, and Environmental & Cultural Collapse
“Why has our society failed to address climate change, which now in the twenty-first century calls into question the very survival of humanity? Advertising on the Edge of the Apocalypse provides a compelling answer, one that few so far have been willing to contemplate: the nature of our advertising and marketing system, a ‘magic kingdom’ which today has come to dominate human consciousness from cradle to grave. If you haven’t seen this film, you will need to see it, and if you do you will want to recommend it to others.”
— John Bellamy Foster | Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, Editor of the Monthly Review, Co-author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
A BURNING QUESTION
Propaganda & the Denial of Climate Change
“If you are skeptical about human-caused climate change, watch this movie. It provides a clear and compelling case for the reality of the problem and the threat to our future that it poses.”
— Michael E. Mann | Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Author of The New Climate War
“A Burning Question picks up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, not just updating the data of climate change, but probing the disinformation and media confusion that obstruct action on civilization’s greatest challenge. See it!”
— William deBuys | Author of A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
DO THE MATH
Bill McKibben & the Fight Against Climate Change
“Do the Math is a wake-up call on climate change and fossil fuel use. It presents a clear and convincing case that we need to wake up and take action. Don’t miss this film.”
— Raymond S. Bradley | University Distinguished Professor, Department of Geosciences, and Director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst
“Moving and incredibly motivating.”
— Taryn Oakley | Instructor of Environmental Science at Portland Community College
