From this review:
"The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen."
"We live in a society in which, despite
extraordinarily clear, present, and worsening climate danger, more than
half of Republican members of Congress still say climate change is a hoax and many more wish to block action, and in which the official Democratic party platform still enshrines massive subsidies to the fossil fuel industry;
in which the current president ran on a promise that 'nothing will
fundamentally change', and the speaker of the House dismissed even a
modest climate plan as 'the green dream or whatever'; in which the largest delegation to Cop26 was the fossil fuel industry, and the White House sold drilling rights
to a huge tract of the Gulf of Mexico after the summit; in which world
leaders say that climate is an 'existential threat to humanity' while
simultaneously expanding fossil fuel production; in which major newspapers still run fossil fuel ads, and climate news is routinely overshadowed by sports; in which entrepreneurs push incredibly risky tech solutions and billionaires sell the absurdist fantasy that humanity can just move to Mars."
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