Planet B: A call to artists scientists [trailer]

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This trailer is a call to create art & science to contribute to mitigating climate change.

(1) It's a call to filmmakers, designers, and all those who care, to imagine inherently democratic solutions for deep decarbonization and good lives for all, based on open data & open science.

(2) And a call to scientists, lawyers, and all others, to create the scientific foundations for inherently democratic and legally binding solutions for deep decarbonization and good lives for all, based on open data & open science. Under the rule of law, we can oblige States to take positive action to mitigate climate change, if and in as far as it is a truly existential global governance challenge.

How to solve the climate crisis? How to turn a threat multiplier into an opportunity multiplier? In 2018, social movements around the globe started doing so. Effective solutions will not (only) be second-best solutions (like emissions trading), because these may work for other global governance problems, but they will fail for climate change. As Bill McKibben famously said: "Winning slowly is the same as losing." First-best solutions (e.g. regulations and taxation) are necessary to stop global warming.

How? This is the challenge. But the alternative, if it's already too late, is not to do nothing. The alternative is to change our relevant legal, political & economic systems to make first-best solutions possible.

As just two examples, this short film shows two vitally important legal norms: In the German constitution, Art. 1(1) of the Basic Law; and in the UN System, Art. 39 UN Charter. We can interpret these norms as if they included the term "[in the climate system]" — and immediately, we find States legally bound to mitigate climate change in order to protect human rights and international peace and security.

Art. 1 (1) GG: "Human dignity [in the climate system] shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority."

Links to give feedback, support, or donate:

carbonlaw.eu/move
carbonlaw.eu/currentversion
patreon.com/maidowski

// Credits of the full-length short film version (20 minutes):

Data credits:
@NASAGoddard: Nature Run (CO2 movement in 2006) svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11719
@NOAASatellites: GeoColor (Full Disk View) star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php
@NOAA Env Viz Lab (via #NASA as NOAA website was offline during 2018 Christmas shutdown): Ocean acidification (RCP8.5 surface pH until 2100) svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30794
@NASA Scientific Viz Studio: Hurricane Train ("Watch hurricanes Harvey, Katia, Irma, Jose & Maria storm across the Atlantic") svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12733

Credits dance scene @Berlin Wall:
Director: Ina Chen inachen.com
Production: Liza Chitava, Irene Della Casa, Sagir Aliyu, Paul Maidowski
Cinematographer: Rebecka Ekholm rebeckaekholm.com
Choreographer & Performer: Rosalie Wanka rosaliewanka.com
Berlin 2019

Music credits:
So wahr der Herr • Ouvertüre • Hilf, Herr! • Die Tiefe ist versieget • Herr höre unser Gebet • Höre, Israel
Thomas Hengelbrock, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble & Genia Kuhmeier
Mendelssohn, Elias Op. 70 ©DHM 18/11/2016

“Mass of Joy” by Ralf Gössler
Eltern-Lehrer-Schüler-Chor Gymnasium Paulinum (2007)
Jörg von Wensierski, Uta Hussong, Margarete Sandhäger & Adrienne West (Solo soprano)

“The Berghain Project” by Krashkee
Mix of diverse tracks including:
“Ask yourself” (Knobs remix) — Plastikman
“Traversing the asteroid belt” (Monoloc remix) — Traversable Wormhole
“The fall of the empire is imminent” — Pfirter
“Fractales” — Pfirter
“BX 3” (Original mix) — Len Faki
“Subzero” — Ben Klock
“Captured Particle” — Thomas Hessler

Additional sound: fromtexttospeech.com

Poem credits:
Rainer Maria Rilke (1908): Requiem. Für eine Freundin. Geschrieben am 31.10., 1. & 2.11.1908 in Paris.
Rainer Maria Rilke (September 1903): Der Panther. Im Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
Liu Xiaobo (2012): June Fourth Elegies graywolfpress.org/books/june-fourth-elegies 那个春天的亡灵 – – 六四十八周年祭2007年6月2日于北京家中

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