Climate change is the most important, impactful issue of our time. The upcoming Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously is finally bringing climate change to the forefront of popular entertainment. I had the privilege of serving on the advisory board with some truly amazing people. Not to mention all the amazing actors in the series - Jessica Alba, Mark Bittman, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, America Ferrera, Harrison Ford, Thomas L. Friedman, Michael C. Hall, Chris Hayes, Olivia Munn, M. Sanjayan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ian Somerhalder and Lesley Stahl I hope this series will educate more people about the dire consequences of climate change, and convince them that the time for action is now!
From the website -
YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY is global warming like you’ve never seen it before. Coming to SHOWTIME in April, this multi-part television event tells the biggest story of our time: climate change and the impact it’s having on people right now in the US and all over the world. Over the course of eight episodes, we’ll report on the crippling effects of climate change-related weather events and the ways individuals, communities, companies and governments are struggling to find solutions to the biggest threat our world has ever faced. An all-star cast of correspondents goes into the field—to Texas, Kansas, California, Colorado, New York, Maine, Montana, Washington, the Carolinas, Florida, the Middle East, Africa, the Andes, the North Pole, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the South Pacific—to meet the people and see the places affected by climate change.
There can be no future for future generations if we don’t force our governments and corporations to take responsibility and take immediate action to stop pumping excessive carbon pollution into our atmosphere. Talks and negotiations since the 1990 Rio Earth Summit have and continue to fail due in part by the United States’ lack of taking on a leadership role to do what is right, moral and just by it’s citizens and at the same time having a profound impact on the rest of world. Although the New York Times recently published an article stating that two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming which is great news for our planet.
We are playing russian roulette with the climate, and soon it will become practically impossible to reverse. This is the moral issue of our time. I hope this series can influence public sentiment and drive the point home that the madness has to stop.
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