Public invited to view "This Changes Everything"

FALLBROOK – The North County film premiere of "This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate" will be shown on Nov. 20, at 6 p.m. at Fallbrook Library, 124 S. Mission Rd.

The Avi Lewis film, based on the best seller written by Naomi Klien, will be presented by the North County Climate Change Alliance. The film was shot over four years in nine countries on five continents.

Klein, who narrates the film, is known for connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there, reports on the self-interest and economic inertia likely to resist correction and recovery. Her strategy is to take a scourge – hyper-consumption, corporate exploitation or "the fiction of perpetual growth on a finite planet" – trace its origins, and then chart a course of liberation. In each of her four blockbuster books, she arrives at some semi-hopeful place.

"Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable," so spoke JFK in 1961, warning of the danger of thermonuclear war. The same warning can be made today, although today’s challenge is global climate change and its effects. "It is a matter of life and death," organizers said.

Attendance is limited to the first 100 and RSVP is urged by emailing [email protected].