Community Book Discussion: Climate Crisis

Learn more about the climate crisis with Kanopy, a streaming service that is free with your WPL card. Their collection includes award-winning documentaries about how the climate crisis is affecting the world and the actions taken to stop it. With Kanopy, you can stream 3 movies per month and have 72 hours to watch the movie before using another play credit. Create an account here. 

Normal is over 1.1

An award-winning feature documentary about humanity's wisest responses to climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, income inequality and the connection between these issues. A film connecting the dots: A look at the financial and economical paradigm underlying our planetary problems, while offering various solutions to reverse the path of global decline.

Climate Refugees

The first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. It turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences.

Anthropocene: The human epoch 

This film follows the research of an international body of scientists, who after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.

An Inconvenient Truth 

This is a wake-up call that cuts through myths and misconceptions to deliver the message that global warming is a real and present danger. An Inconvenient Truth brings home Al Gore's persuasive argument that we must act now to save the earth.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to power 

Ten years after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to the forefront of mainstream culture, An Inconvenient Truth: Truth to power proves to be more relevant than ever today. Join former Vice President Al Gore as he continues his tireless fight, traveling around the globe to educate and inspire the next generation of climate champions.

War on the EPA

Discusses how Scott Pruitt went from fighting the EPA to running the agency and rolling back years of policy. An investigation into the conservative political forces and causes, like climate change skepticism, that propelled Pruitt's takeover of the EPA.