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CITY, ND – (NewsDakota.com) In honor of Earth Week, This Changes Everything, a documentary film, will be shown three times:  Tuesday, April 19 at 7 pm at the VCSU Rhoades Science Center; Thursday, April 21 at noon (bring a brown bag lunch if desired); and Tuesday, April 26 at 7 pm at the Barnes County Museum.

The film was inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction best seller This Changes Everything and presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the  front lines—from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography in This Changes Everything provides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. This is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. The movie will leave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the center of it all.

This Changes Everything is sponsored by What In the World Is Going On?, a campus-community group sponsored by Valley City State University’s Science and Social Sciences departments.  Its goal is to examine current issues through books, films or speakers and is devoted to the twin and non-partisan purposes of raising awareness and encouraging social action.  All programs are free and open to the public. For further info call 845-7321.