INUNDATION DISTRICT is an award-winning 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.
Lexington Climate Action Network/LexCAN and Cary Memorial Library are partnering to bring this important film to The Venue in Lexington.
Free. Registration required. Sign up at: https://carylibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/offsite-film-screening-inundation-district/
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4| 7:00—9:00 PM
Join us for a film screening of INUNDATION DISTRICT. A Q&A with the film’s Director, David Abel will follow.
This film run 1 hr and 19 Mins. Rating: TV-PG
Admission is free. Registration is required.
Climate change is coming to a location near you! After witnessing two hurricanes assault two areas that have been historically untouched by the effects of hurricanes, we can more clearly understand that these super charged hurricanes and weather events are just one of the effects of climate change that we need to address!
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 world’s 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.
Co-sponsored by Lexington Climate Action Network (LexCAN).
Thank you to The Lexington Venue for sharing their space.
This program is made possible by the generous donors to the Cary Library Foundation.
CAPACITY: 100 spaces available.