Whoopi Goldberg teams with Extinction Rebellion for climate change movieShow full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. Plus she is outspoken on environmental issues and had the potential to inspire her followers to take action.Gigantic Change went live on Extinction Rebellion's Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram platforms on Friday. LONDON (Reuters) - American actress Whoopi Goldberg has leant her voice to an Extinction Rebellion animated film highlighting the precarious state of the planet's natural environment.The three-minute film entitled "Gigantic Change" was released on Friday to coincide with World Enviroment Day.
It is set in 2050 and shows a girl asking her grandmother, voiced by Goldberg, to read a "happy" bedtime story.After the grandmother chronicles a gloomy planet on the brink of environmental collapse back in 2020, the girl finishes off the tale, switching the narrative to one where the world came together to tackle climate change and protect nature.While the ending is deliberately ambiguous, the film offers a message of hope. We have a moral duty to take action — whatever our politics. Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a global environmental movement with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. Extinction Rebellion was formed to fix this.
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“Lending my voice to the most urgent issue of our time feels like the right way for me to take a stand, in the hope that we can leave a world worth living in for our children.”“Climate change and the ecological crisis are two sides of the same problem. All our design and artwork can be used non-commercially for the purpose of planet saving. XR America has removed the XR US 4th demand and replaced it with an “All Lives Matter” demand and the foundation of their organization and work is based on the false and discredited idea that the Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) is separate from social justice.
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The year 2050 is significant as it is when many nations have committed to becoming carbon neutral.The film was created by Passion Pictures, the London studio behind the Rang-tan film for British supermarket chain Iceland highlighting the threat of the palm oil industry to orangutans.With the world slowly emerging from lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, climate action group Extinction Rebellion has been pushing the message that the human race must seize the opportunity to create a greener future.The film ends with a caption saying that unless the human race changes course, by the year 2050 one billion people will be displaced and half of all species extinct.Asked about Oscar-winner Goldberg's involvement, co-director George Lewin said: "We thought her iconic voice would bring a perfect sense of gravitas to the performance. Act now. We do not endorse or create any merchandise and we will pursue and prosecute anyone who does. Knightley — who will next star in and executive produce “I want to speak out in support of Extinction Rebellion,” Knightley said.
Extinction Rebellion US is not affiliated with, nor do we support XR America. Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a do-it-together movement. In the 12-minute film Extinction, the Oscar-winning actress plays one of a group of XR activists who go to London to meet Lord Grant, the fictitious Environment Secretary.