Film Facts
The subtitle of the film:
What is "Our Climate Can't Wait!"?
One of the main points of the film is to push President Biden to declare a:
What is a "Climate Emergency" in the US?
The federal body of government that has slowed funding and new proposals the White House has made to move towards renewable energy and end dependence on fossil fuel in the US.
What is Congress?
The product that is created when we condense natural gas for shipping purposes.
What is liquified natural gas (LNG)?
Two of the four health problems listed in the opening scene by an indigenous person speaking about health consequences in their tribe because of polluted air, water and the earth.
What is 1) Cancer, 2) cardiovascular disease, 3) asthma, or 4) autoimmmune diseases?
The type of plant that is being built in St. James Parrish that will bring 10 billion dollars of spending on pollution and place 14 small plants inside a big complex furth polluting the air and river and drinking water.
What is a plastic plant?
The name of the campaign spearheaded byspecial-ed teacher turned activist Sharon Lavigne.
What is Rise St. James?
The Obama presidency represented a ______ to eight years to start transitioning off fossil fuels.
What is a loss or “lost chance”?
A new technology promoted by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm that is supposed to be the new technology that will save us in “tackling the climate crisis” that is actually a net positive for carbon to go in the air and uses fossil fuel to run.
What is carbon capture?
The 85 mile stretch along the Mississippi in the middle of “cancer alley” between Baton Rouge to New Orleans where people are 50 times more likely to get cancer because of pollution.
What is St. James Parrish (Welcome, Louisiana)?
The country that is the number one in extractor of oil and gas from the ground and the number one exporter of natural gas in 2022.
What is the United States?
The gas and oil refining capital of the US where activist John Beard was born.
What is Port Arthur Texas?
The pipeline that President Biden revoked the permit for his first day in office.
What is the Keystone XL Pipeline?
Two of the myriad of scientifically proven consequences of the climate crisis listed in the film.
What is 1) sea level rise, 2) cancer clusters in communities across the globe, 3) more fires out West, 4) bigger more impactful storms, 5) more flooding in the coastal areas, and 6) more diseases happening that we don’t have any solution to?
The number of oil barrels that the Biden administration claims will be created by greenlighting the largest oil and gas lease in US history.
What is one billion barrels?
The US President that changed rules to allow US produced gas and oil to be exported causing the expansion the Liquified Natural Gas production and transport on US bomb trains and trans-oceanic ships.
Who is President Obama?
The LNG export project that would house itself right next to a daycare facility in Gloucester County NJ and support bomb trains that run through downtown Latinx districts in Philadelphia.
What is the Gibbstown LNG terminal?
The type of threat President Biden labeled climate change on his campaign trail.
What is an existential threat?
The infrastructure action called for in the April 4, 2022 IPCC Working Group 3 Sixth Assessment report entitled “Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.
What is “a complete new moratorium on fossil fuel infrastructure”
Two of the three climate-related promises President Biden made on the campaign trail that were quoted in the film.
What is 1) vastly cut down on the amount of fossil fuels that we use, 2) “I will no longer fund oil companies with subsidies”, 3) “I will bring America back into the Paris Agreement and put us back in the business of leading the world on climate change again”, and 4) ending all new drilling on federal lands?
The number of acres offered for drilling by the Biden Administration in the Gulf of Mexico.
What is 80 million acres?
The pipeline in Virginia that is years behind schedule and billions in dollars over budget that Dear President Biden is asking President Biden to shut down.
What is the Mountain Valley Pipeline?
The date that physicists, biologists, engineers, educators, and activists around the globe stood together in protest against the funding of the fossil fuel industry and demanded change.
What is April 16, 2022
The special type of terrain that is formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone that create caves, caverns and water reservoirs that Russel Chisholm, co-chair of Protect Our Water Heritage Rights Coalition, says would be destroyed by methane being pumped through pipes in Virgina and surrounding areas where the Mountain Valley Pipeline would flow.
What is karst terrain?
The number of cubic meters of liquified natural gas that President Biden committed to supplying to the European Commission in 2022 as a response to the war in Ukraine.
What is 15 billion cubic meters of liquified natural gas (LNG)?