Transition Saint Clair Shores Presents: Six Degrees Could Change the World

Each month Transition Saint Clair Shores hosts an event to educate the public on the most pressing environmental and social issues facing our world. Transition Saint Clair Shores seeks community based startegies to help mitigate these issues. In September, our meeting will focus on the issue of global climate change.

Based on a book by Mark Lynas, Six Degrees Could Change the World focuses on basically what our world would be like if the temperature increased incrementally by one degree. This is accomplished with the use of spectacular weather stock footage combined with sate of the art CGI effects to show the viewer just what kind of weather conditions humankind would be faced with after runaway global warming.

The film begins with what world weather would be like if the Earth's overall temperature rose by one degree. The film paints both a frightening yet compelling vision of a world dying under the heat of its own excesses. Hauntingly narrated by Alec Baldwin, the film takes us through all of the changes the Earth would experience at each of these benchmark increases: changes in everyday temperature, changes in oceans and ocean currents, changes in natural disasters. As the temperature goes up, so does the volatility to earth's delicate weather balance.