‘Paris to Pittsburgh’: Florida’s Climate Action Plan Highlighted in New Nat Geo Documentary (VIDEO)

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National Geographic’s new documentary Paris to Pittsburgh chronicles how Americans are aiming to solve climate change by developing and putting into practice real solutions.

As Earth’s weather grows more unpredictable and destructive, scientists and politicians alike can’t wait for Washington a moment longer. In this exclusive clip from the doc, Chris Castro, the Director of Sustainability in Orlando, Florida, highlights how the state is testing floating solar panels.

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“We are proud the film spotlights innovative solutions and leaders — including Chris Castro, Director of Sustainability in Orlando, FL,” said executive producer Katherine Oliver.

“He, under the guidance of Mayor Dyer there, is working hard to implement innovative solutions to address the challenges of climate change and Orlando’s climate leadership serves as a model for other cities in Florida, and across the country, to take note of.

“Regardless of your position on climate change, Chris and his team show that there is more opportunity to be gained — specifically with regard to public health and our economy — when sustainable actions are taken,” she added.

Paris to Pittsburgh premieres on NatGeo in the U.S. on December 12, but starting on December 13, the film will be available for free on digital platforms on National Geographic’s website (https://NatGeoTV.com), mobile app (Nat Geo TV App), Video On Demand and connected devices (such as Roku, AppleTV). Also starting December 13, the film will be available for one week on National Geographic’s YouTube channel.

Watch the clip below:

Paris to Pittsburgh, Premieres Wednesday, December 12, 9/8c, National Geographic

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    OliveSword

    Whether it’s mass deforestation in Brazil, or increasingly dry forests resulting in record-breaking deadly wildfires in California, and now even in B.C., or a myriad of other categories of large-scale toxic pollutant emissions and dumps, currently there’s discouragingly insufficient political gonad planet-wide to sufficiently address it.

    Maybe due to (everyone’s spaceship) Earth’s large size, there seems to be a general obliviousness in regards to our natural environment, as though toxic pollutants emitted through exhausts pipes and tall smoke stacks—or even the largest contamination events—can somehow be safely absorbed into the air, sea, and land (i.e. out of sight, out of mind). It may be the same mentality that allows the immense amount of plastic waste, such as disposable straws, to eventually find its way into our life-filled oceans, where there are few, if any, caring souls to see it. Indeed, it’s quite fortunate that the plastic waste doesn’t entirely sink out of sight to the bottom, like Albertan diluted bitumen crude oil (dilbit) spills, for then nothing may be done about it, regardless of divers’ reports of the awful existence of such plastic tangled messes. Also, it must be quite convenient for the fossil fuel industry to have such a large portion of mainstream society simply too exhausted and preoccupied with just barely feeding and housing their families on a substandard, if not below the poverty line, income to criticize the former for the great damage it’s doing to our planet’s natural environment and therefore our health, particularly when that damage may not be immediately observable. Undoubtedly, to have almost everyone addicted to driving their own fossil-fuel-powered single occupant vehicle helps keep their collective mouths shut about the planet’s greatest and very profitable polluter, lest they feel like and/or be publicly deemed hypocrites. Plus, why worry about such things immediately unseen, regardless of their most immense importance, especially when there are various undesirable politicians and significant social issues over which to dispute—distractions our general mainstream news-media sadly are quite willing to sell to us?