Film screening: The Loud Spring

In cooperation with the aka-Filmclub, we are showing the documentary “The Loud Spring” (2022) in line with the motto SustainAbility of the University Sustainability Days. The film by Johanna Schellhagen (writing, directing, and production) uses a hybrid format of documentary material and animation to illustrate how the climate movement and union movement can work together.

“How could a society look that is able to mitigate climate change? And how can we build it? The film starts with the question why the CO2 emissions did not decrease since the beginning of UN climate conferences: why have we lost 30 years? It discusses the problems of “green capitalism”: the need for economic growth inherent to capitalist economies, and the dependence of nation states from economic success on the world market. In this context, we assess the potential of renewable energies and other technological fixes, given the problems of resource depletion. We ask scientists to describe the consequences of unmitigated climate change: at what point are we now? How do things have to change? In the second part we depict what in the global climate movement is called “System Change”. How would a society capable of dealing with the problem of climate change more responsibly look? The Loud Spring shall fuel a strategical debate inside the climate movement.” (Labournet.tv)

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