The Do The Math movie is a 42-minute documentary film about the rising movement to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis and challenge the fossil fuel industry.
The first part of the movie covers the Do the Math tour, during which McKibben gave talks about his July 19 Rolling Stone article, "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," in which he explained the fossil fuel industry's role in climate change. In his article and during his tour, McKibben emphasizes three vital numbers. The first, 2°C, which equals 3.6° F, is the absolute maximum global temperature increase Earth can experience without causing catastrophic problems. Anything higher could devastate civilization as we know it. The second number is 565 gigatons, the maximum amount of carbon humans can pump into the air and still keep the global temperature increase below 2°C. At our current rate of fossil fuel consumption, we will likely reach this limit within 15 years. The third number, 2,795 gigatons, is the amount of reserves the fossil fuel companies have. These reserves are coal, oil, and natural gas that are still in the ground-- but the fossil fuel companies plan on extracting and burning them. In order to keep climate change under control, we have to keep 80% of the reserves in the ground.
The Do The Math movie is a 42-minute documentary film about the rising movement to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis and challenge the fossil fuel industry.The first part of the movie covers the Do the Math tour, during which McKibben gave talks about his July 19 Rolling Stone article, "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," in which he explained the fossil fuel industry's role in climate change. In his article and during his tour, McKibben emphasizes three vital numbers. The first, 2°C, which equals 3.6° F, is the absolute maximum global temperature increase Earth can experience without causing catastrophic problems. Anything higher could devastate civilization as we know it. The second number is 565 gigatons, the maximum amount of carbon humans can pump into the air and still keep the global temperature increase below 2°C. At our current rate of fossil fuel consumption, we will likely reach this limit within 15 years. The third number, 2,795 gigatons, is the amount of reserves the fossil fuel companies have. These reserves are coal, oil, and natural gas that are still in the ground-- but the fossil fuel companies plan on extracting and burning them. In order to keep climate change under control, we have to keep 80% of the reserves in the ground.
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