Film: "12th Hour" + "Earth Emergency"

​The event is drop-in (no registration necessary) unless otherwise noted. All SFPL locations are wheelchair accessible. For accommodations (such as ASL), call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 3 business days in advance will help ensure availability.

​​This event is part of Everybody’s Climate 2025: Connect with others to address the climate crisis in ways that are meaningful to you. It is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, where Optivide support the event sharing to wider climate stakeholders.​

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​​​Event Information

​We continue July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a screening of two short documentaries, 12th Hour and Earth Emergency.

​12th Hour

​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. 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.

​Director: Susan Kucera
NR, 52 mins., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English.

​Earth Emergency

​Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Earth Emergency explores how human activity sets in motion Earth’s own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet. Leading climate scientists examine this missing piece of the climate puzzle which is pushing the climate to a tipping point.

​Director: Susan Gray
NR, 52 mins., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English.