Climate Change and Sustainability documentaries and lectures

Posted byplanetarian85Posted inSustainability

[Previous post update – i should have included the graphic which shows approximately where tipping points might occur at what temperature. So here that is: ]

Here i have compiled a list of important and influential documentaries and lectures. This is not an exhaustive list and i suspect there are many more good videos about the topic. Some of these entries are in a variety of formats including cinematic, documentary, television and lecture formats. I did manage to watch them all, although i had previously watched some before but i still rewatched some of these. Collectively they provide an excellent grounding in the climate and sustainability field. This ranges from political, economic, climate science, real world examples of the effects of climate change, the fight against sceptics, the journey of historical views on climate change and much more. Some are older and some very recent, but i still recommend watching all of them. Watch in any order, you could choose to watch from oldest to newest but i found it more interesting to jump around the list. Most are about an hour long but with some much shorter. This took me about a month to get through them all. Unfortunately i didn’t take notes on each one or even write a brief synopsis of each entry. I may revisit them and add at least some basic detail of the contents of each one. I would argue that this list could be given to new university students in the environmental field to get a broad understanding about the state of the planet and all the interacting elements of nature and society which are effected. If there are any i have missed please let me know via my twitter at https://x.com/Planetarian215 – my twitter is mainly just based on climate twitter, so i only follow academics or people of interest in the climate change field, i would recommend this to anyone as its easier to catch all the newest developments provided by climate twitter. I am also going to recommend some youtube channels which are excellent pages on climate related topics. These are:

Dr Gilbz – https://www.youtube.com/@DrGilbz

Climate Adam – https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateAdam

Just have a think – https://www.youtube.com/@JustHaveaThink

Paul Beckwith – https://www.youtube.com/@PaulHBeckwith

Climate change documentaries list:

Part 2 – https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwbv4

Part 3 – https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwlfj

  • National Emergency Briefing (2026) –

Introduction – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpLxLp4j07Y – 

Health – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaUMKCw6ryw –

Climate – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z6A0c5Q4 –

National security – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Z8Atre2rE –

Energy transition – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cD1HY5e1H8 –

Economics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdViu679YBY –

Tipping points – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmd6MDiJmQU –

Nature – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1imjeUBTW58 –

Food security – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjJ8Ag0-z0 –

Weather extremes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VUM-crZ4Eg

In order to watch them all i would recommend copy and pasting this into a word document and then after watching each one you can mark it as watched, perhaps by changing the font colour of the video title to say green or red. I do advise taking breaks from viewing as the material can be quite heavy in tone. I am hotly anticipating a documentary about climate change filmed in 2028 where it can review the extremes of 2026 and its el nino and the usually hotter following year of 2027. This could be very stark in tone and truly reveal how we are destroying the planet. Take care of yourselves in this current heatwave. Regards, planetarian85 🙂

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