Film: Inundation District with Filmmaker David Abel
When:
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2024 6:30p -
9:00p
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2024 6:30p -
9:00p
Where:
Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church
70 West Emerson St
Melrose, MA 02176
Admission:
$0-20
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Lectures & Conferences, Movies
Event website:
melrose.brownpapertickets.com
Tuesday August 6th 7PM-9PM, door at 6:30PM, Sliding Scale $0-20
Melrose UU Climate Action Team, Friends of NEMT Forest and The Urban Biodiversity Project together host award winning filmmaker, Boston Globe writer and BU Professor of Journalism David Abel for a showing of Inundation District (2023). This film is about climate change in Boston focusing on the rising tide in Boston's Seaport District.
Location: 70 W. Emerson St Melrose Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church
INUNDATION DISTRICT is a feature-length film about the implications of one city's decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district on landfill, at sea level.
In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world's wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast on landfill, at sea level. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the worlds largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District.
The 79-minute film, a production by The Boston Globe, premiered in the fall of 2023 as the closing night film of the GlobeDocs Film Festival.
Tickets by donation. Proceeds go to fund Biodiversity Organizing in Metro North Boston, current projects include wetlands protection, community-based forums and planting for climate resilience in public spaces.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGyZdx_QDI
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