COPSE – the Croydon Outdoor Pursuits and Social Events – is staging a global premiere of a film this Tuesday – possibly the most important documentary produced in our lifetimes.
Existential warning: Chris Packham fronts the 45min documentary
And a limited number of tickets are free for all to attend.
The People’s Emergency Briefing is part of a campaign to draw attention to the climate and nature crisis facing us.
The film features leading scientists, a former general and is presented by Chris Packham. All are far too frank about where things are heading and what can be done about it.
Late last year, the National Emergency Briefing was held in Westminster, where the country’s top scientists, doctors and senior military officers gave an historic briefing on the risk of “unprecedented societal and ecological collapse” to MPs and peers, calling for a new “World War Two type response.”
The briefing echoed the findings of a joint intelligence report from MI5 and MI6 that urged for a measured conversation about the “realistic possibility” that “ecosystems critical to UK national security” start to collapse by “2030 or sooner”. Yes: or sooner.
A national security threat that could leave the UK in a state struggling to “maintain food supply”. An investigation by ITV News‘s always excellent Martin Stew discovered that the full report had been withheld, in which our intelligence community forecasts possible contractions in the economy of more than double that of the 2008 crisis and even the risk of “mass mortality events”.
The People’s Emergency Briefing helps to fill in some of the gaps left out of the published joint intelligence report, and raises a range of important issues.
- COPSE’S screening of The People’s Emergency Briefing this Tuesday, April 7, will be followed by a community discussion.
- The screening will take place from 8.15pm to 10pm at South Croydon United Church Hall, Aberdeen Road, CR0 1EQ.
- Tickets are free, but you must have booked a ticket for entry. Click here to book
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