Free Screening: "12th Hour" and "Earth Emergency"

The San Francisco Public Library continues July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a free screening of two short documentaries, 12th Hour and Earth Emergency.

12th Hour
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm. Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which have developed naturally as part of human evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address a problem with the spatial and temporal scope of climate change. If humanity has any hope to survive the changes that we have already locked into our climate, it is necessary to be honest with ourselves and our limitations. 12th Hour lays out our biases so that we may overcome them.

Director: Susan Kucera
NR, 52 mins., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English.

Earth Emergency
Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Earth Emergency explores how human activity sets in motion Earth’s own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet. Leading climate scientists examine this missing piece of the climate puzzle which is pushing the climate to a tipping point.

Director: Susan Gray
NR, 52 mins., 2021. Closed captions (CC) in English.

More info about the films: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/07/17/film-12th-hour-earth-emergency
More info about Everybody’s Climate 2025 program series: sfpl.org/everybodysclimate

11:45 Meet in SFPL's Latino Room (lower level) at 100 Larkin St.
12:00 The film starts at 12 p.m.
2:15 After the film we will stay for a brief post-screening conversation.