Forget Sex and the City - watch Sisters on the Planet
12 June 2008
There's been a lot of hype in recent weeks about the new Sex and the City film, which premiered in London a few weeks ago. But last night another film, Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet, which also happens to be about four women, premiered at Prince Charles Cinema on Leicester Place - coincidentally just around the corner from where the Sex and the City launch took place.
As we blogged last week, Sisters on the Planet is a series of four short films about climate change.
The films are unique in that they bring together the human stories of climate change, showing how poor people are struggling to cope with more and more extreme weather, and they also explain how women in poor countries are at greatest risk.
If you want proof that our planet's climate is changing, then you need look no further.
Over two hundred people attended the premiere and watched intently, taking in the stories of the four remarkable women who feature in the films.
Guardian journalist Lucy Siegle took questions from the audience after the screening, along with Melissa Davies Oliveck, one of the women who featured in the film, and Oxfam GB's chief executive, Barbara Stocking. And as Lucy Siegle put it herself, the films demonstrate why "it's absolutely necessary for us all to become engaged with climate change".
If you didn't make it to the launch last night you can watch one of the films below, where Sahena Begum from Bangladesh tells her story - though it's worth heading across to oxfam.org.uk/sisters to watch the full, high-quality version as the subtitles are a bit small on this page.
Comments
Hi Kenyon,
Yes we should look at the facts. How about the fact that 90-some percent of scientists agree that we are making climate change worse.
At what point would you start to believe them? WIll it take 100 per cent?
And as for the sunspot argument, it's worth having a look here - http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11650
Richard, Oxfam GB | July 4, 2008 3:36 PM
I can wholeheartedly say these are films to watch - and worth trying to get the DVD to watch them on a big screen if you can.
The film from Uganda just brought home how much damage we're doing to the land that people live off, and so the lives of millions around the world.
Tim Davies | June 12, 2008 9:07 PM
Whilst there are major storms, we cannot in any seriousness take this one fact as evidence of the claims of the Moonbats and Lucy Siegle. If we do take flawed science as fact, we limit our potential to make a difference - and of course, Al Gore and his crowd makes a lot of money.
They do not make sense, as anyone pointing out the work of Piers Corbyn can demonstrate. What they do then is label sensible people 'climate change deniers'. Much easier to do that than to look at facts, such as why Mars and Venus are also heating up - and then look at the science of the sunspots. Corbyn is correct in his weather analysis, as this very cool day in June shows.
If the lefty press were more honest we would hear abou this and prepare intelliently.
One way to confuse the public is to use a strong emotional appeal - state your arguments with images of poor starving peopl and a polar bear (and the inconic polar bear image was stolen from a student by Al Gore's people - so much for ethics).
Then you can shout down sensible people. One person who attended this event gave me a report today - complete with anecdotes about Lucy Siegle not answering when a question about hemp was raised and others simply refusing to enter into debate, as they were only along for the drinks.
Kenyon Gibson | June 12, 2008 6:56 PM