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12th Hour

Starting at $89

A Film by Susan Kucera and Jim Swift

52 minutes

Scene Selection • Closed Captioned

Grades 11 - Adult

Item #:TWE-2010

DVD

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NARRATED BY EMMY-NOMINATED ACTOR DAVID MORSE

Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm.

Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which have developed naturally as part of human evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address a problem with the spatial and temporal scope of climate change. While our brains adapted to meet the immediate challenges encountered by threats to our short-term survival, the biological wiring for a long-term threat like climate change simply has not developed in equal measure. Is it possible for humanity to collectively bridge the gap between these modes of thinking?

Visionary thinkers and dozens of the brightest minds in academia, from evolutionary biologists to climate scientists to cognitive researchers and psychologists, lay out a compelling and unflinching look at mankind in relation to climate survival: our past, abilities, shortcomings, and what may very well be our final destination. If humanity has any hope to survive the changes that we have already locked into our climate, it is necessary to be honest with ourselves and our limitations. 12th Hour lays out our biases so that we may overcome them.

FEATURING:

Dr. Paul Piff, Associate Professor of Psychological Science Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Dr. Maureen O'Hara, Professor of Psychology
Dr. Thomas Metzinger, Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Bruce M. Hood, Professor of Psychology
Dr. Jorgen Randers, Professor of Climate Strategy
Dr. Azim Shariff, Professor of Social Psychology
Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Professor, Haskell Indian Nations University
Dr. Ugo Bardi, Professor of Physical Chemistry
Dr. Michael Ranney, Professor of Cognitive Psychology
Dr. Kari Norgaard, Professor of Sociology
Pete Russell, Physicist
Dr. William Catton, Sociologist
Dr. Dario Maestripieri, Evolutionary Biologist
Richard Dawkins, Evolutionary Biologist
Dr. Joseph Tainter, Anthropologist
George Dyson, Science Historian
Paul Roberts, Journalist
Dr. William Calvin, Neurophysiologist
Dro. Robert Trivers, Evolutionary Biologist
Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky, Cognitive Scientist
Dr. Brian Fagan, Anthropologist
Jay Julius, Lummi Nation Tribal Chairman
Dr. Sue Blackmore, Psychologist
Rob Hopkins, Founder of Transition Network

FILMMAKER'S STATEMENT: "Jim Swift and I have produced many films about climate change through various prisms. 12th Hour is our fourth film. Jim produced a film that takes a hard look at ourselves and the evolutionary traits that may keep us from tackling a problem that will take a worldwide co-ordinated effort to solve."

—Susan Kucera

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