Action Planet: Meeting The Climate Challenge
Solution-focused climate change docu inspires, empowers.
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Action Planet: Meeting The Climate Challenge
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What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Action Planet: Meeting The Climate Challenge highlights the efforts being made by the Biden Administration, scientists, business leaders, and activists to alleviate the on-going climate crisis. The focus is on solution building and inspiring people to take action, but some may find the conversations about the impact of climate change distressing thanks to images of forest fires, lands impacted by drought, and stories about illness and death as they relate to pollution. Logos for environmentally sustainable energy companies, and pro-environmental organizations and initiatives are also featured, and information on how to join these efforts is shared.
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What's the Story?
ACTION PLANET: MEETING THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE is a documentary that focuses on the importance of taking action against climate change. Hosted by Now This correspondent Zinhle Essamuah, it features interviews with key members of the Biden Administration, including Vice-President Kamala Harris and newly appointed White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, scientists, and business leaders discussing the planet’s ongoing climate crisis and environmental justice. Conversations with individuals across America also reveal how climate change is affecting their day-to-day lives. High-profile activists, including Greta Thunberg, Jane Fonda, Adrien Grenier, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, discuss their work in accompanying 8-12 minute episodes. Throughout it all, they hope to inspire people around the world to take action in order to ensure a healthier planet for future generations.
Is It Any Good?
This energizing series seeks to inspire and encourage viewers to step up and make a difference against climate change. But in addition to the calls for action, one of the most powerful messages it offers is about the disproportionate ways that climate change is impacting different communities, thanks to on-going socioeconomic disparities resulting from racism and classism. Meanwhile, it also underscores how resource scarcities, such as the lack of water, are both health and national security issues.
If some of this feels political, that’s because some of it is. Action Planet highlights the efforts of the Biden Administration to address climate change. But it also showcases how individuals can make a big difference in the fight to protect the planet, which is everyone’s problem. The information about the negative effects of climate change can be overwhelming, but the messages it offers about our ability to do something about it are empowering.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the different ways that individuals can help with the fight against climate change. What are some of small things we can do that may potentially lead to bigger solutions? In what ways can media help with these efforts?
Action Planet: Meeting The Climate Challenge talks about environmental injustices, including how climate change disproportionately affects underserved communities. What is the connection between poverty, race, and climate? What other political, social, and economic issues have to be addressed if real progress is to be made?
TV Details
- Premiere date: April 22, 2021
- Cast: Zinhle Essamuah, Kamala Harris, Gina McCarthy
- Network: Discovery+
- Genre: Educational
- Topics: Activism, Great Boy Role Models, Great Girl Role Models, Science and Nature
- Character Strengths: Compassion, Courage, Perseverance, Teamwork
- TV rating: TV-PG
- Last updated: April 23, 2021
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