Among the plethora of Earth Day events taking place all this week, the National Constitution Center tonight is airing the film “A Sea Change,” as part of its Red, White, Blue and Green discussion series. The film is about climage change and the impact of carbon emissions on the planet’s oceans.
Afterward, producers Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby, plus Widener University constitutional and environmental law expert James R. May, will lead a discussion. Among other things, they’ll debate whether we have a constitutional right to a clean, healthy environment.
The center is 525 Arch St. on Philadelphia's Independence Mall, The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Admission costs $9 for members, $15 for non-members, and $7 for students and teachers. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 215-409-6700.
Here’s more description from the publicists:
"Told through the journey of Sven Huseby, a descendant of Norwegian fishmongers and a life-long environmentalist, the film shows how climate change is not simply manifesting itself in global warming; the chemistry of the ocean is being changed by excess carbon dioxide, creating a profound threat to the food chain from the bottom up. Traveling to fishing villages in Alaska, to conferences and laboratories, and to ancestral sites from the Copper River Delta to the barren glacial beaches of Svalbard, Norway, Huseby searched for information and answers on a quest to discover what environmental legacy his five-year-old grandson, Elias, will one day inherit."
The series is designed to feature conversations with nationally respected scholars, practitioners, advocates, executives, and government officials about unique constitutional issues pertaining to environmental policy and stewardship.
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