"The 11th Hour"

'We have the technology today to reduce 90% of the human global foot print."  

 "The hope is us.  Let's begin."

^{The recently released feature-length film produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio – The 11th Hour.  http://www.11thhouraction.com/}

^{It’s an action film so to speak, about taking action. In DiCaprio’s own words: "The film documents the environmental crises we face and the solutions we must begin to implement." This hopeful film invites the viewer to "Turn Mankind’s Darkest Hour Into Its Finest." It’s no surprise that Al Gore endorses seeing it.}

^{The film was created using over 150 hours of interviews with over fifty of the brightest minds on the planet, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Yes, it documents the gravitas – global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, depletion of ocean habitats – but the film’s portrayal is one that also offers hope and practical solutions that can be addressed by reshaping human activity. Think lifestyle change. As DiCaprio says in a catchy phrase: "The hope is us. Let’s begin.’"}

^{ClimateCAN co-sponsored a showing of the film at The Panida Theater  on September 20th.   We presented the film with The Idaho Mythweaver, a Sandpoint-based nonprofit educational media organization, whose mission is to support the authentic presentation and preservation of cultural traditions of Western Native peoples within the context of their relationship to Mother Earth is presenting the film with, Jane Fritz, a non-Indian oral historian and radio producer who has worked with area tribes for over 15 years, says that tribal traditions, oral histories, and oral literature are inextricably linked to the natural world.}

^{"I can only imagine how tribal people, especially the elders and spiritual leaders of the peoples – the culture-bearers – must feel observing the destruction of the planet," says Fritz. "What’s inherit in their stories is a strong respect for nature."}

^{Former Mythweaver president, Francis Cullooyah, cultural director of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, shared his tribal perspective on the current state of planetary environmental affairs in a brief address before the film.}

^{"The film speaks for itself," said Cullooyah. "We’re at the 11th hour. We need to wake up and recognize that progress without caution is going to kill us all.’"}