Arcadia To Host Screening Of Climate Change Film 'Facing the Surge'

GLENSIDE, PA --Rising sea levels are already flooding parts of the mid-Atlantic. This exciting new documentary short film depicts the immediate and tangible costs of sea level rise for the people of Norfolk, Virginia - the home of the nation’s largest naval base and thousands of hard-working Americans struggling to adapt to the rising tides and an uncertain future.

But Norfolk is just one place of many where catastrophic flooding events are taking place, often without warning.

“I tell people that Norfolk is the ‘canary in the coal mine,’ said one volunteer who helped facilitate one New England screening. “We need to understand that promoting solutions now will help us in the future. If we act today we can avoid having our lives disrupted by the catastrophic flooding that sea level rise can bring.”

Facing the Surge tells the stories of citizens from across the United States as they step forward to raise awareness and push their government to pursue real solutions as they discuss a little-known solution for staving off climate catastrophe.

The Arcadia screening will take place on Monday, October 3 at 7 p.m. at Stiteler Auditorium in Murphy Hall.

Lead filmmaker, Diogo Castro Freire, is traversing the length of the eastern seaboard - from Maine to Florida - this fall as part of an East Coast screening tour with local chapters of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, its coastal tour partner. Their charge is to drive understanding of immediate issues and solutions to rising sea levels caused by climate change. The tour begins in New England on September 9 and ends in the Southeast on November 22.

Following the screening there will be a panel discussion with the filmmaker and advocates about climate change solutions and impacts when the public can get their questions answered.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reserve your spot for the screening.

Citizens' Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.

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