(Chelsea Update would like to thank Julia Strimer for the information in this story.)
The National Geographic documentary Before the Flood is a spell-binding account of what is happening to the earth due to climate change.
Leonardo DiCaprio travels the world interviewing scientists, world leaders, and activists as well as the people affected locally by a warming climate. The film concludes with the signing of the Paris Climate Accords. In December 2015, 195 countries made history when they agreed to the world’s most ambitious pact to limit carbon emissions.
The Paris agreement, so named because that’s where the COP21 meeting of nations took place, was a landmark accord setting the world on course to keep global surface temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above where they were before the Industrial Revolution.
This film will be shown on Sunday, July 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the McKune Room at the Chelsea District Library.
The showing is sponsored by the Western Washtenaw Democrats and the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice and the group will hold a discussion after the showing, addressing the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accords and the consequent formation of the “We Are Still In” movement. http://wearestillin.com/
