Film: "12th Hour" + "Earth Emergency"

Everybody's Climate 2025
Thursday, 7/17/2025
12:00 - 2:15
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room B
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, 12th Hour and Earth Emergency.

12th Hour

Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm. Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which have developed naturally as part of human evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address a problem with the spatial and temporal scope of climate change. If humanity has any hope to survive the changes that we have already locked into our climate, it is necessary to be honest with ourselves and our limitations. 12th Hour lays out our biases so that we may overcome them.

Director: Susan Kucera
NR, 52 mins., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English.

Earth Emergency

Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Earth Emergency explores how human activity sets in motion Earth’s own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet. Leading climate scientists examine this missing piece of the climate puzzle which is pushing the climate to a tipping point.

Director: Susan Gray
NR, 52 mins., 2021. 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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