The Partnership Post
This is a mega-month for movies. One of the leading studios, Twentieth Century Fox (TCF), is hoping for success with “The Martian,” “The Peanuts Movie,” “Joy,” and others.
If you buy a ticket to a TCF film, at least some of your money will be going toward the company’s investment in beating climate change. Twentieth Century Fox is among 73 corporations that recently took the American Business Acts on Climate Pledge. Disney is another entertainment company that did so, earlier this year.
Drought and extreme weather are making it even harder for farmers to produce the food needed to feed 7.3 billion people, and scientists believe that climate change contributes to this volatility in our weather. The risks posed to global food security and the challenges facing farmers and consumers in adapting are the focus of a major scientific assessment released in Paris December 4 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In October came news that climate change could reduce average global incomes by 23 percent, compared to a world without climate change, and widen the gap between rich and poor countries. Those were the findings of a report, published in the journal Nature, by Marshall Burke of Stanford and Solomon M. Hsiang and Edward Miguel of Berkeley.
