Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for an online screening of The Oil Machine. By highlighting the complexities of how oil is embedded in our society – from high finance to cheap consumer goods – The Oil Machine brings together a wide range of voices from oil company executives, economists, young activists, workers, scientists, and pension fund managers. It considers how this machine can be tamed, dismantled, or repurposed.

We have five to ten years to control our oil addiction, and yet the licensing of new oil fields continues in direct contradiction with the Paris Climate Agreement. This documentary looks at how the drama of global climate action is playing out in the fight over North Sea oil.

The film reveals the hidden infrastructure of oil from the offshore rigs and the buried pipelines to its flow through the stock markets of London. As the North Sea industry struggles to meet the need to cut carbon emissions, oil workers see their livelihoods under threat, and investors seek to protect their assets. Meanwhile a younger generation of climate activists are catalyzed by the signs of impending chaos, and the very real threat of global sea level rises. The Oil Machine explores the complexities of transitioning away from oil and gas as a society and considers how quickly we 

Please join us immediately after the film for an inspiring Q&A session.

ZOOM LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87929718047?pwd=NmwvcmdqdnZEYWJiS0t3ODRZWFhKQT09

_{Due to an unpleasant Zoom bombing incident, we will be locking our meeting at 7:10, so please do your best to arrive on time. Thank you for your understanding.}