The Cross of the Moment
The Cross of the Moment explores the environmental crisis in a thoroughly original and provocative way. This feature-length documentary articulates the urgent need to correct the negative impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, exploring the main barriers preventing governments and citizens from more actively seeking solutions.
It all started with the Fermi Paradox. Surrounded by a universe billions of years older than our own planet, wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that extraterrestrial life must exist? If so, why haven’t we seen evidence of this? A team of experts, including people from the scientific and academic communities, began their journey of discovery by pondering this paradox. A possible explanation may lie in a very complex set of factors that put our planet in a unique position to support life.
This is the prelude to the main thesis of the film. When we realize that we are blessed with a seemingly random and rare set of planetary environments that make life possible for all of us, shouldn’t we be doing everything we can to preserve it?
As the film says, we are seeing signs of climate change all around us in the form of dangerous droughts, severe storms and rising temperatures. Yet many remain stubborn in the face of these mounting catastrophes. There are many possible social and economic reasons for this. For example, our industry has become completely dependent on the use of fossil fuels—they have become an important strand of DNA that runs through our daily lives—and there will inevitably be great resistance to breaking away from this accepted habit.
The Cross of the Present lays out the personal behavior and capitalist considerations that continue to drive the gradual decline of our planet’s precious resources. The film argues that our efforts to increase efficiency in areas such as car production, while a step in the right direction, are short-sighted in terms of sustainability and long-term. Respondents articulated the consequences of our continued inaction, but managed to temper the typical doomsday tone of climate change with a welcome call for humanitarianism.
