According to James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, society needs a systems update to cope with climate crisis – and his new film explains why:
The climate and ecological crisis is one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. If the world fails to address it, and over the rest of this century we continue to burn fossil fuels and pump even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we’ll face catastrophe. On this much, almost all governments agree (with some notable exceptions such as the US)...
… But herein lies a potentially powerful source of hope for the future because what we do as individuals and members of communities and countries will make all the difference. That’s what was on my mind when I started working on a new climate change documentary with filmmaker Paul Maple.
Our new film System Update: Rebooting Our Future argues that, while we may have run out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, we are now only beginning to see how we can not just avoid further environmental damage but make a much better world for all of humanity. To do that, we must go beyond the incremental and timid policies of today. We need to be radical and dig into the drivers of climate change...
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System Update | Rebooting Our Future – YouTube
Prof Dyke will be at the Our Positive Future Event at the Exeter Science Centre on Sunday 29th June
Climate Confluence: event format
5-6pm: Arrivals: explore the daytime event’s creations + exhibits, networking.
6pm: Keynote speech + Q&A around the current climate science – and what climate scientists say we need to be doing, by Prof James Dyke: University of Exeter climate scientist, writer, author and presenter of recent Global Documentary film: System Update | Rebooting Out Future.
6:30pm onwards: guided visioning activities + tangible outcomes led by Katie Villa: Quirk theatre director, performer and facilitator.
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