[1 of 2] Surviving The Future – Are we past the tipping point? The world’s major esteemed climate scientists gather together with the great Lawrence Krauss to address the most pressing issue inthe world, today, climate change with resultant effects on food, global economies and national security. NASA, NOAA, The Earth Institute, E3G, and The Global Institute of Sustainability *5 Stars*

 

[2 of 2] Surviving The Future – Are we past the tipping point? The world’s major esteemed climate scientists gather together with the great Lawrence Krauss to address the most pressing issue inthe world, today, climate change with resultant effects on food, global economies and national security. NASA, NOAA, The Earth Institute, E3G, and The Global Institute of Sustainability *5 Stars*
 

[1 of 2]”[The Earth] has gone through extraordinary changes in its climate and in the species that live on it. But now it seems that our planet is being transformed — not by natural events, but by the actions of one species: mankind.” ~ David Attenborough

 

[2 of 2] David Attenborough presents potential solutions to global warming. Acknowledging the scientific consensus on the issue, the debate focuses on what we can do as individuals, a nation and a species to avert the impacts of climate change.
 

This powerful, hard-hitting and compelling film is as timely today as it was in 2008. Whatever the measures of greed, wishful thinking, neglect or ignorance, we have reached a crossroads; the 2 paths both have dire consequences. If we continue business as usual, we will choke the life out of the planet and our way of life will end.

 

Some of today’s leading climate scientists from the world’s top universities and research organizations provide evidence as they air their grave concerns on the state of our future as the Arctic continues to lose huge, ever-increasing amounts of ice and we face the Methane Monster.
 

Starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
 
 

NGC visualizes in spectacular HD the devastating ecological impact each single degree increase in temperature could have on our planet over the next century.

This 8 minute video explains clearly and simply the problem with growing carbon releases by fossil fuel industries and the uncontrollable damage of catastrophic climate change. “People should not have the freedom to destroy the planet.They cannot continue to do that with impunity.”
 
 

Paul Beckwith is a Paul Beckwith is a professor of geography/meterology with a laboratory for paleoclimatology and climatology and is doctoral candidate of climatology at the University of Ottawa. He holds a science masters degree in laser physics and a BS in engineering physics. He is also a chess master.