Divest! The Climate Movement on Tour

Sporting a rough-edged concert-film aesthetic, filmmakers Josh Fox and Steve Liptay's documentary serves up highlights of the 2012 “Do the Math” lecture-variety tour (mostly of college communities) put on by anti-fossil-fuel website 350.org, featuring authors Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest Williams, and Naomi Klein—topliners in a roster of musicians, scientists, writers, activists, and guest celebs who call attention to global warming, impending mass-extinctions, rising sea levels, and the untrammeled greed of the oil, coal, and gas industries. McKibben warns that a tipping-point is being reached, and that even industry tycoons have acknowledged it—but the latter refuse to endanger massive profits by backing off from creating more carbon emissions. Part of McKibben's solution—inspired by how a call for commercial divestment in South Africa put pressure on the nation's racist apartheid system of yesteryear—is to urge universities to cut all financial ties with the energy giants. The “Occupy Wall Street”–style idealism gives this material a mildly dated feel, but it's hard to argue with the facts or the sentiments advanced here. A strong optional purchase. Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady)