Film: "Duty of Care" + "Disobedience"

Everybody's Climate 2025
Thursday, 7/10/2025
12:00 - 2:30
Koret Auditorium
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

We continue July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a screening of two short documentaries, Duty of Care: The Climate Trials and Disobedience: The Fight for Climate Survival.

Duty of Care: The Climate Trials

Meet Roger Cox, the first and only lawyer to have successfully sued both a government and an oil giant in court to establish that climate inaction can be made illegal. His ground-breaking case against the Dutch government and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has been foundational in determining that even private entities owe a duty of care to citizens to avoid catastrophic climate change, which stunned legal experts and sent shockwaves through parliaments and corporate boardrooms around the world.

Director: Nic Balthazar
NR, 56 mins., 2022. Closed captions (CC) in English.


Disobedience: The Fight for Climate Survival

The David vs. Goliath story of the front-line leaders risking life and limb to keep fossil fuels in the ground and create a livable future for us all. Starring: Naomi Klein, Michael Mann, Hoda Baraka, Marshall Ganz and Bill McKibben.

Director: Kelly Nyks
NR, 41 mins., 2022. Closed captions (CC) in English.

Everybody’s Climate 2025: Connect with others to address the climate crisis in ways that are meaningful to you, from poetry and music to science and practical action. 

Environment & Nature

Find out how to adopt a greener lifestyle and discover the outdoors with SFPL and its partners.

Film & Video

Watch party and film discussions. 

Politics & Current Affairs

Get informed about local and national civic issues.

This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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This program will be conducted in English unless otherwise noted.

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