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1. Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip
2 months ago
A short animated film about the feedback loops likely to lead to catastrophic climate change, by Leo Murray.

The script, with extensive peer-reviewed references and additional information and links, is available at wakeupfreakout.org/
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  • Graham Bunn 2 months ago
    Thanks for the short film. Very clear and easy to take in. Can i download this? I need to show this to friends, family and work colleges who to be frank are living in a state of denial. This film could help.

    Graham
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  • Graham Bunn 2 months ago
    Wait a minuet i have worked out how to download it.
    Thanks anyway. Cool animation. Good luck with the film.

    Peace and Love

    Graham
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  • Theo Simon 2 months ago
    OK fellow-primates, let's get organised and active! No point waiting for some one else to do it. Freinds colleagues family and all the people we never talk to about stuff like this, need to be told, in a confident and cheery way, what the score is. It feels really hard, but I guess it'll get easier once we reach our own tipping point of enough people being serious and urgent enough to bring the others along as well. People just need confidence that we, the most evolved animal awareness on the planet, are really going to go for it. We need eachother too, because it's so easy to slip back into the prevailing routines... But what an adventure, what a truly historic opportunity! Seize the day.
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  • Lotte Reimer 2 months ago
    Really like it! Like Graham, I Would like to use it to show others but, unlike Graham, I haven't worked out how to download it! HELP, please.
    Love and respect
    Lotte
  • Leo Murray 2 months ago
    Hi Lotte - just look to your right :-) ---------------->
    there's a button that says Download AVI version
    that's how it's done!
    thanks for the kind words
    Leo
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  • Tom Thistlethwaite 2 months ago
    Great work, Leo. Cheers, Tom.
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  • Mike Kaulbars 2 months ago
    Excellent work - reposted @ greenfyre.wordpress.com/
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  • greenerleith 2 months ago
    We reposted this to the Greener Leith blog too greenerleith.org
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  • Apple Renee 2 months ago
    Excellent! Reposted on my myspace and at reneetheneohippy.wordpress.com
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  • Peter Vogelsanger 2 months ago
    Superb! Is there somewhere a "download button" for a mp4 (for iPod or iPhone)? Or flv-file? Will it be on youtube?
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  • Chris D 2 months ago
    A brilliant film, highly recommended that everyone should watch all the way to the end. Then send it to all their friends :)
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  • Pentti Malaska 2 months ago
    Good stuff, congratulation! I would only hope a more slowly talk. Graphics of hypercycle excellent.
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  • Francis M 2 months ago
    Exquisite animation and sound effects - may many be woken up by it. Congratulations.
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  • Marcus Rivas 2 months ago
    Great film! I hope it moves people to the fundamental action to consume less and be more deliberate in all activities. For our own sakes, it has to work.
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  • Roy Pugh 2 months ago
    Thank you for this. A friend has sent me this after I told him that much to my shame I didn’t really know a lot, enough about climate change. I intend to watch your film over and over again until I get a good understanding, one that I can talk to others with.
    I like your film! And I’ll send it to my postgrad students who ate teachers.
    Roy
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  • Nicolas Marchildon 2 months ago
    I loved it! I would like to share this with my familly, but many of them are French natives and may not understand this in full. Are there plans to translate it to other languages? This needs to be seen worldwide!
  • Leo Murray 1 month ago
    Hi Nicolas,
    Peter Vogelsanger (see comment above) is very kindly in the process of recording French and German dubs of the film, which will be available on Vimeo as soon as they're ready - just check back here in a couple of weeks :-)
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  • Ryan Blyth 1 month ago
    Thanks for the video and the script I am using it as part of a unit on how we should be dealing with climate change, using existing technologies.
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  • shakti burke 1 month ago
    Beautifully told- i love your accent. It's a hard truth but the more of us that 'get a grip' on it, the better. Thank you so much for making the message so clear & digestible. I've got a 'Fossil Fuel Follies' piece on you tube- nowhere near the quality of your production, but another drop in the bucket for change. Thanks again, love Shaktibee
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  • Paul Redfern 1 month ago
    Great film - educational, easy to understand and pointing out the consequences of business as usual attitudes. I just showed this to a handful of my students where I teach as they are studying 'global issues'... definitely a wake up for them in light of the conservative curriculum which chooses to ignore our plight..
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  • Dr Merrin 1 month ago
    Great to have a short and clear description of some of the major components that are affecting our climate.

    What is really great is that it shows that we do have a chance to make a difference if we just start taking extra actions - each of us - every day!

    Grow well
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  • Miki 1 month ago
    Excellent, I just sent it to Rudd! I think he'd like it!
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  • Leslie Vagli 1 month ago
    This fantastic little film hits the mark!!!
    You need to get this used as a public Advertisement for the people, On Public Television all over the World!!
    Great Work!!!!! I love it. Work well done. Nothing speaks better than the truth!!!
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  • clare harris 1 month ago
    Great film, can we down load it anywhere else in other formats, my computer doesn't like the AVI version?
  • Leo Murray 1 month ago
    Hi Clare
    Eventually I'll put up a .mov version on my site, but I can send a link to one now if you like?
    cheers
    Leo
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  • Alexandre Padilha 27 days ago
    Hi Leo,
    "Wake-up" is breathtaking. I'm an English teacher in Brazil and I've been showing your movie to my pupils, as an introduction to our classes on recycling. They love it. I wonder if you would allow us to adapt it for theater, a non-profit school play. Thank you so much indeed. Alexandre.
  • Leo Murray 26 days ago
    Hi Alexandre,
    please by all means adapt my film - I'd be delighted. My girlfriend is a teacher :-)
    Keep up the good work,
    Leo
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  • Adam Hardy 22 days ago
    The truly scary thing is that we are already seeing the beginnings of this. India for instance is building a huge wall and fence (a bit like the Berlin Wall) along their border with Bangladesh. Someone should ask India whether it's designed to keep out the sea as well :(
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  • Craig Harris 21 days ago
    Hey,
    great stuff.... for anyone looking to further their knowledge of the problems we face as human beings/earthlings and our responsibilities not only to ourselves and each other but for the sustainability and overall well being of the earth and all it's NATURAL inhabitants check out the following....
    Zeitgeist & Zeitgeist: Addendum zeitgeistmovie.com
    An Inconvenient Truth (most have pro'lly seen already)
    haarp.com (perfect example of humans tendency to turn anything innovative into a possible tool of war)
    thevenusproject.com (to get ur alternative, creative juices flowing)
    and youtube is ever growing in it's significance to the underlying truths and potential resolutions for all of us...
    We CAN step up and make a difference... it all starts with information and global awareness.
    Better times ahead.... Go Good Humans!!!
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  • Tom Dyson 21 days ago
    Leo - thanks for this inspiring and funny film. Embedded at throwingbeans.org.
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  • Simon Blunden 20 days ago
    Essential viewing for every living thing on this planet. Have blanket forwarded to everyone in my address book, even if it's Amazon customer care....The problem is that most of my friends are already clued up, how can we take decisive action against those with the power to change things???

    Well done Leo for a beautifully crafted piece that treads the fine line between hope and despair....
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  • Jered Cuenco 20 days ago
    Well done. Love the art direction and animation style. Looks like a fun project for an important subject.
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  • Mark B 14 days ago
    Nice work Leo - I'm firing it out to family, with the risk of them groaning and tuning out much lessened by the film's incandescent creativity and incontrovertible good sense. I'd also like to link to it from artnotoil.org.uk, when we get the multimedia side of things sorted, if that's OK?
  • Leo Murray 14 days ago
    Please do Mark, I'd love that :-)
    nice one
    L
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