Accepting Change: This week on Mountain Lake Journal

Many believe our changing climate is pushing us closer to an environmental catastrophe, but for most people, the problem is easy to ignore. Dave Hallquist, the CEO of a Vermont electric utility, has made it his mission to take on one of the largest contributors to this global crisis — our electric grid. But when his son Derek, who is a filmmaker, tries to tell his father’s story, the film is nearly derailed by a staggering family secret, Dave reveals he is coming to terms with his own gender identity, and admits to his family that he is transgender. The documentary that will be broadcast on Monday evening (January 29th, 9pm) on Mountain Lake PBS, follows Dave through his transition to become a transgender woman, named Christine.

Christine and Derek Hallquist, and producer Aaron Woolf join us for a candid discussion about the the making of the documentary called Denial.

Denial is a movie about electricity, about gender, about filmmaking, and about all the ways people lie to themselves even when faced with overwhelming facts. It is the story of a family coming to terms with hard personal truths against the backdrop of a global crisis.

Watch Movie Trailer:

Learn more:

http://www.denialdocumentary.com

http://www.facebook.com/Denial

  1. The DNC which has made employment and production the issue have failed to practice what they preach. simply issuing Executive Orders, illegally, to restrict business growth, employment and production can not be the cause of climate change, otherwise the DNC and President Obama would not now be trying to claim their bogus economy is the cause of our short period super growth as a result of President Trump’s initiatives and rescinding Obama’s over the top restrictions. In other circumstances the DNC has failed horribly to prevent natural disasters that are preventable, diverting funds from the maintenance of the Levy system in New Orleans resulted in that horrible catastrophe,abuse of public funds ear marked to prevent an environmental catastrophe can’t be blamed on a productive America. The status of illegal immigrants in the “sanctuary state” pf California from 10-40 million people depending on which political demographic is used, diverts billions of gallons of water that the recent spate of wildfires occurs should come as no surprise.
    The real problem is mass population growth. the African population is likely to double before the end of this century much of that growth will consume resources and affect the environment in a manner no one even seems willing to speculate upon without consequence. That the bulk of the population has gravitated to the littoral regions congregating in mega-cities raises concerns about the rise of the ocean. Industry is a part of population growth. We want clean industries population growth can not be used to excuse some of the more egregious practices of industry. But simply to attack industrial growth is not a solution. The problem today rests on those nations struggling with population growth and how to sustain a global population growing geometrically.

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