Teacher-filmmaker, Mr. Scott Danville, with his class of uniquely talented and energized students create a film, Halting Hades: The Moral Imperative, documenting the world's most important issue and the factors that will lead to a revolution through the intersection of science, economics, and politics.  Halting Hades: The Moral Imperative developed as an idea that involving students in the process of documenting the current state of climate change from a science, economic, and political perspective embraces students' natural curiosity to know their subject.  The utility of knowing the science is critical when interviewing high-profile figures. The film is available on Amazon Prime and Vimeo.    Halting Hades: The Moral Imperative developed as an idea that involving students in the process of documenting the current state of climate change from a science, economic, and political perspective embraces students' natural curiosity to know their subject.  The utility of knowing the science is critical when interviewing high-profile figures. The film is available on Amazon Prime and Vimeo.

Pictured from left to right: Joseph Judge, Alec Seymour, Everett Sapp (floor), Mrs Danville, Tyler Pepper, Makayla Provost, Ethan Magram, Alexandre Faruqi.

Choosing science, political, and financial subjects to interview was a high priority.  The central theme of exploring the issue of stalled politics given the current scientific information enabled students to draw their focus to New York city as the financial capital of the world.  There, scientists, environmentalists, econonmists, and politicians are steeped in the issue of climate change, making NYC a natural choice.

The interview at Middlebury College in Vermont of Bill McKibben of 350.org proved to be revealing Bill is a central figure in the area of action to combat climate change.  350.org was founded in 2008 by a group of university friends in the United States along with author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public, with the goal of building a global climate movement. 350 was named after 350 parts per million -- the safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  Their first actions were global days of action that linked activists and organizations around the world, including the International Day of Climate Action in 2009, the Global Work Party in 2010, Moving Planet in 2011. 350 quickly became a planet-wide collaboration of organizers, community groups and regular people fighting for the future, according to the 350.org website.