EcoCounts Climate Film Series Presents: Finding the Money with Q&A

Join us for a community screening of Maren Poitras's mind-blowing documentary Finding the Money, followed by an in-person Q&A with Sheridan Kates from Modern Money Lab UK.

Doors open at 6:00pm, film starts at 6:30pm.

The film runtime is 95 minutes, with the discussion afterwards led by documentary director/producer and climate advocate Solveig Herzum. Light refreshments provided.

This is an entirely free event, with donations gratefully accepted to cover the cost of our screenings.

https://modernmoneylab.org.uk

https://ecocounts.community/

https://www.islingtonclimatecentre.co.uk/

https://www.castlehaven.org.uk/

Finding the Money follows American economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey thorugh Modern Money Theory, or 'MMT.' Kelton provocatively asserts that the National Debt Clock ticking ominiously upwards is not actually a debt for us taxpayers at all, nor a burder for our grandchildren to pay back. Instead, Kelton describes the national debt as simply a historical record of the number of dollars created by the government that is currently being held in pockets, as assets, by the rest of us.

MMT bursts into the mainstream media, with journalists asking, 'Have we been thinking about government spending all wrong?'

But top economists and politicians from across the political spectrum condemn the theory as 'voodoo economics' and 'crazy.'

Finding the Money traces this conflict all the way back to the origin story we tell about money, injecting new hope in our political conversations and empowering countries around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to inequality.