Documentary 'Time to Choose' Focuses on Solutions to Climate Change
Despite the shrillness of climate deniers in today’s political and media circuses, it’s fair to say that most regular citizens--and nearly all of the global scientific community--know that our planet’s climate is changing, and that those changes are already causing damage to our environments, cities, and economies and will continue to do so on a grander scale in the future.
Whether people are jumping from their seats to battle climate change, however, is another thing altogether. More immediate concerns like paying bills and putting food on the table tend to take precedence for obvious reasons. The heavy handed nature of climate change reporting (although how can you really sugarcoat it) has also caused a fatigue and numbness in a lot of people. This spurns a hands-in-the-air reaction of “oh well,” or “It’s out of my control.” With the daunting size and scope of the problem, coupled with the die hard stubbornness of monied interests to accept its reality, how can you blame them?
With all of this in mind then, it’s difficult not to react to a new documentary about climate change without letting out an unenthusiastic sigh and instead queueing up a video of a kitten playing with a small monkey. We know climate change is bad, and we know how it works, so what more could a documentary tell us about the topic that won’t have us swearing off reading climate news forever and resigning ourselves to a blissful ignorance of our end of days? Turns out a lot, actually.
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