"The Age of Stupid" Premieres in Sydney - Don't miss this!
A few of us Transition Sydney folk were invited to a preview of this amazing film about 6 months ago. It has had a huge impact in UK and Europe and now is finally launching here. It's a painful mixture of fiction and real-life (and the real life bits will make you as mad as hell, and show you just how easy it is for us to delude ourselves that climate change is "sorted" or a non-issue). Click on "Read more" to see the trailer
The Age of Stupid Premieres in Sydney on 19th August at the Sydney Theatre Walsh Bay. 400 tickets on sale only from next Tuesday 4th August Get is early to book your tickets. See the events listing in the right side-bar.
Note, the trailer is HD so good to watch in full screen - click the little icon at the left of the "vimeo" name below the video screen
Australia & New Zealand Trailer HD from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
Well the premiere has been
Well the premiere has been and gone. Awesome film with great emotional impact despite having already seen it. A good roll up by many climate-focused NGOs and a few A list celebs as well. Bryan Brown, Rachel Ward, Wendy Harmer, Felix Riebl (frontman of the Cat Empire) were all in the row behind us. An interesting discussion followed with live links to the guy in the Arctic, Piers, the windfarm guy in UK and a clip from the president of the Maldives - made as a message to the leaders of the major economies about Copenhagen. His words were powerful along the lines that the Copenhagen climate summit will be a pivotal moment in the history of humankind - either one where the world's leader come together to sign a solid commitment to substantial action to tackle climate change binding on all countries.... or one where the world's leaders come together to sign a "suicide pact" of inadequate, self-serviing, business-as-usual half promises (which has been the outcome of all previous summits).
Senator Christine Milne spoke strongly of the need to send a loud and blunt message to all the major Australian political parties that they are pandering to the big polluters with their current pathetically inadequate solutions and shaping up to sign the suicide pact on our behalf and without our consent.
Basically it is time to take it to the streets with the same level of mass involvement as we saw in the anti-Vietnam protests that pressured the government to pull out of an unwinnable, unjust and immoral war.
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