As habitats and species are lost to climate change, their voices disappear. A new documentary by Masha Karpoukhina tells the story of this loss through firsthand stories and a deep archive of recordings.

Its words make stone part from stone, its words prevent tanks, its words transform the world, when it is sung at the right time by the right people, after enough people have died for singing it. - Ursula K. Le Guin. Excerpt from "Unlocking the Air"

Thousands and thousands of people stood on the slanting pavement before the palace. Snow sparkled in the air, and the people sang. You know the song, that old song with words like land, love, free, in the language you have known the longest.

till if it exploded, it would burst with horrible violence, hurling pointed shards of stone. And out here in the twilight, in the open, there was nothing but soft faces with shining eyes, soft little breasts and stomachs and thighs protected only by bits of cloth. This is a fairytale.

It was the seat of government; it held the power. It was
the powerhouse, the powder magazine, the bomb. Power had been compressed, jammed into those old reddish walls, packed and forced into them over years, over centuries...

This is some next level gaslighting from the premier of Alberta…

👉 power shortages
👉 rolling back human rights
👉 admitting CCUS isn’t viable at the needed level
👉 hiding methane emissions
👉 Risking water supply with coal mining.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

We just lived through the hottest summer in human history. Then it rained and we were like, Whew, glad that’s over.

We have 1 clear demand:

DECLARE A GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Share with your friends. poster everywhere. Email to world leaders. Blow it up BIG.

www.abillionpeople.org/arms/eco

The attempt to reframe the human story in the larger context of universal processes is crucial right now. What a time. www.societyandspace.org/articles/hyp...