What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world?

Join us for a film screening and discussion sponsored by The New School’s Environmental Studies Program, Global Studies Program, and Tishman Environment and Design Center.

Faculty Discussants:

Timon McPhearson – Assistant Professor, Urban Ecology; Chair, Environmental Studies

Nadia Elrokhsy – Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design

Jaskiran Dhilon – Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology

Bhawani Venkataraman – Associate Professor of Chemistry

About the film:

Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.

Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP.