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[EcoWorldly] Maldives will be the First Carbon Neutral Country : EcoWorldly: lead - this evening, following the world premiere of The Age of Stupid, a major new climate change film in which a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055 looks at old footage from 2008 and asks why people didn’t stop climate change when they had the chance.

[ISLINGTON NOW] Film Review: The Age of Stupid | ISLINGTON NOW: As Sydney’s Opera House burns and London’s O2 Arena is submerged by floods, Postlethwaite looks back at documentary footage from the year 2008 and narrates the film around one central question: “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?”

[Graduate Environmental Program] Graduate Environmental Program » The Age of Stupid: We are writing to invite you and a colleague to a private screening of the the film, The Age of Stupid, starring Oscar nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite, on Wednesday 11th March at 7pm at the Victorian Trades Hall, cnr Victoria & Lygon Streets, Carlton South (cost: gold coin donation at the door).

[Green Blog] Green Blog » Blog Archive » The Age of Stupid: The movie stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we still had the chance?” He looks back on footage of real people around the world in .

[EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Green carpet out for "The Age of Stupid": Taking its lead from Al Gore's Oscar-winning climate change film "An Inconvenient Truth," a trail blazer for a new genre of "envirodocs," The Age of Stupid casts Postlethwaite as the founder of a "Global Archive" in the now melted Arctic, preserving humanity's achievements in the hope the planet might one day be habitable again.

[Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] PLA rides to the rescue again in China quake: "I can tell you now that we have already sent out a total of 100,000 PLA (army), People's Armed Police and police," state television showed Wen telling survivors in Beichuan county, one of the areas hit hardest by Monday's 7.9-magnitude quake in southwestern Sichuan province. By Tuesday, some 50,000 PLA troops were either engaged in rescue work or on their way to devastated areas, hampered by infrastructure damage that cut off worst-hit regions from the outside world, state media reported.

[Cambridge Carbon Footprint] Cambridge Carbon Footprint » Blog Archive » Age of Stupid sell out: Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? Cambridge Carbon Footprint and The Stop Climate Chaos Coalition organised the community engegement for the peoples premier at the Vue Cinema.

[Western Telegraph | News] Torch Theatre, Milford Haven takes part in environmental film ...: The Age of Stupid is the latest film by director Franny Armstrong and stars Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at archive footage of 2008 and asking why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

[Ocean Conservancy Stories] Ocean Conservancy: United States Protects America's Arctic from ...: Climate change is causing the Arctic to warm twice as fast as the rest of the planet, leading to a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice cover and other potentially catastrophic changes to Arctic Ocean ecosystems. The cumulative effect of commercial fishing and shipping, as well as open-ended oil and gas development could be devastating to this highly fragile system if not done correctly," said Josh Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group.

[Gristmill] An ACCCE up his sleeve | Gristmill: The environmental news blog ...: Highlights include commentary from Sierra Club coal guy Bruce Nilles, footage from the big Capitol Power Plant protest on Monday, and a clip of the Coen brothers ad that debunks the notion of "clean coal. bottom line is you've spent the better part of a decade running campaigns sowing doubt about the realities of climate change.

[Next Left] Next Left: How stupid are we?: Seeing clips of Hurricane Katrina (the strength of which was certainly due to climate change) together with the floods in the UK, followed by a billionaire businessman recently launching India’s first low-budget airline and protestors demonstrating against the building of wind turbines near to their village, the film makes its point forcibly. And within that context, we are told that in order to avoid climate change of more than 2 degrees, we have to level emissions off by 2015.

[Arts and Ecology] 1906 SF earthquake “a hoax” : Arts and Ecology: Equally artists continually question and re-examine society's notions of progress. We need their unique perspective on the enormous challenges ahead - on the relationship between environmental issues, and not least climate change, .

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