True False, Hot Cold – Screening + Discussion

Join the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences for a film screening and discussion about climate change, belief, and talking with people you don’t agree with.

The award-winning documentary series, True False, Hot Cold, was filmed over three months in a county of Utah that has some of the least belief in climate change in the United States. Each short episode features conversations with farmers, ranchers, cowboys, coal miners, and other county residents about climate change. But instead of focusing on divisions, the series weaves these interviews and vignettes of everyday life to offer ideas about how to build bridges between people who have very different identities and beliefs.

Episode screenings will be punctuated with open conversation with the audience, filmmaker, and MIT staff and faculty incorporating these values and approaches into their MIT work.

Light refreshments will be served.

In the event that this screening reaches capacity, attendance of the MIT community will be prioritized.

Please register in advance for this community event.

Panel discussions featuring:

• Ben Stillerman — filmmaker and founder of the Social Cohesion Lab
• Professor Deb Roy — faculty director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication
• Laur Hesse Fisher — program director at MIT Climate and founder of the ESI Journalism Fellowship

Hosted by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, in collaboration with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. Supported by the MIT Climate Nucleus.

Questions? Please contact Sophia Apteker