Curb Your Carbon Narrated by Ryan Reynolds Premieres Tonight on CBC's The Nature of Things

With his unique brand of humour, crazy stunts and stunning animations, environmental activist and actor Ryan Reynolds narrates Curb Your Carbon, a new documentary that takes an unusual approach to climate change.

“I grew up watching David Suzuki and his show,” says Reynolds. “I’m no David Suzuki, but it was an honour to do this. I really appreciated being asked.”

Curb Your Carbon premieres tonight at 9pm on CBC's The Nature of Things and is also available on CBC Gem. It travels the world to reveal the simple and effective things we can all do right now to help fight climate change.

But instead of depressing us with the worst-case scenario, Reynolds shows us how we can cut billions of tonnes of C02 with a little help from a family of garbage stealing Ninjas, a bug exterminator who eats crickets, grasshoppers and scorpions, a German racing driver who never hits the gas and an activist who turns plastic waste into amazing art.

“There’s a hunger for stories about our planet. But we’re all exhausted by climate change docs that overwhelm us,” says producer Dugald Maudsley.“ So we’re using humour to empower people with a list of things that will have a real impact on climate change right now.

The documentary also uses creative animations to transform climate change statistics into numbers that make sense. Rather than talk about “a tonne of CO2” Curb Your Carbon turns it into a weight and drops it on a car.

“It was exciting to have Ryan Reynolds narrate this documentary,” says writer Liam O'Rinn. “He’s fought climate change for a long time and earned the cred’. Hopefully the message will hit home and inspire people to act.”

Curb Your Carbon may be irreverent, but it also provides a clear blueprint for fighting climate change: Working together we have the power to cut C02 emissions, give our planet a break and save ourselves in the bargain.

“I want my kids to experience some of the things that I got to experience when I was kid,” says Reynolds, the father of three young daughters. “I was lucky enough to grow up in British Columbia. That’s an environmental playground; mountains, streams, rivers, lakes, skiing, ocean, you name it. So, I want my kids to have as much of that as possible.”