BRATTLEBORO — The February Climate Café will screen the video, Rollbacks: An Assault Against Life on Earth, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m., at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St.
As always, the Café is free, and light refreshments will be available.
The impact of climate change is undeniable and catastrophic, as the ongoing fires in Australia have tragically demonstrated.
However, the Trump administration has met this crisis by systematically and efficiently enacting numerous regulatory rollbacks, “reversing past policy progress and putting humanity's very existence at risk,” according to a news release.
With dramatic scenes of drought, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods, Rollbacks reveals how successful the Trump administration has been in reversing policies that protect the environment - from the Paris Agreement to regulations on coal, endangered species, and the opening of public lands to drilling, to mention just a few.
The film describes the extremely dire situation we find ourselves in, with less than eight years, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to make the changes necessary to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis.
Following the 30-minute movie, a discussion will center on this question: “In light of the fact that what is depicted in this video is the ultimate crime against humanity and all other sentient beings, how do we as citizens effect the immediate and comprehensive changes required to avert climate apocalypse when we are opposed by such a hostile and life-subversive national government?”
This video is produced and directed by the same people in Woodstock, Vermont, who created a film the Café has screened in the past, The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community.