Film Screening: Sh’hili Documentary

For several decades now, people have been talking everywhere about the processes of climate change and global warming underway. Conferences, forums and publications are multiplying. The famous COPs (Conferences of the Parties) held each year in a different country bring together hundreds of delegations from all over the world. And yet there are few results, even though the climate change phenomena continue to worsen: accelerated rises in average temperatures, extreme weather events, not to mention frightening and devastating pandemics such as Covid 19, which has already claimed the lives of millions of people in barely 3 years.

There is indisputable proof that these accelerated climate change phenomena began and developed in the North with the increasingly intensive and massive use of fossil fuels since the "industrial revolution". The capitalist and neo-colonial economic powers continue to produce almost all the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is the direct cause of global warming.
On the other hand, it is equally proven that the most dramatic consequences of climate change are largely recorded in the non-industrialized countries of the South, whose contribution to carbon production is practically negligible. By way of comparison, while Ethiopia's annual per capita CO2 emissions were around 0.15 tonnes in 2021, they were 10.28 in North America, 8.09 in Germany and 4.8 in France in the same year. In other words, an Ethiopian produces on average 68 times less than a North American and 27 times less than a French person. But this is just one example of climate injustice.

Filmed between France, Italy, Tunisia and Morocco, Sh'hili attempts to address all the issues and dimensions of the climate change, from a political position committed to climate justice, the protection of the most vulnerable populations, the protection of life and resistance to all forms of colonial and neo-colonial domination and policies. Sh'hili is therefore intended as a contribution, albeit a modest one, to collective resistance to climate change and its ecological, human and political consequences.

 

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