If you haven't yet seen the Academy Award-nominated film, "An Inconvenient Truth", here's your chance. The film will be shown on Monday, January 29th at 7:30 pm in Textor 102. This campus screening is free and open the community.
"Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
"If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change."
(from www.climatecrisis.net)
This event is being sponsored by Students for Sustainability and the Ithaca College Environmental Society.
Once you see the film, if you're inspired to try to DO something about climate change, plan to attend the "Focus the Campus" event in the North Meeting Room, on Wednesday, January 31st, from 7:30 - 10:30pm. The purpose of this event is to focus a diverse range of student groups from across the campus on the issue of global climate change and what we should collectively be doing to address the problem.
