Event description:
Paradigm Shifts: Music and Film Festival, in association with The Church of the Ascension, will present a screening of Symbiotic Earth and panel discussion on Saturday, March 16 at 2pm at The Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan. The panel will focus on Earth Ethics and the Climate Crisis. Panelists will include scientist and activist Fritjof Capra, NYU Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences Tyler Volk, and others. Filmmaker John Feldman and composer Sheila Silver will also be present. The panel will be moderated by Encompass’ Artistic Director Nancy Rhodes.
As the climate crisis becomes more and more urgent, Lynn Margulis’ symbiotic worldview and the Gaia theory she developed with Jim Lovelock serve as important jumping off points for discussions about our ethical responsibilities toward the Earth and the living system that sustains us. Symbiotic Earth explores these subjects within the rich context of Lynn Margulis’ life as a maverick scientist. Fighting against prevailing science, she showed that life evolved through myriad collaborations, not through competition, and that it behooves us to respect the living network of which we are a part. Here’s a trailer for the movie.
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