By Paul Homewood
And then there’s this crank from the BBC!
Whether you believe that art imitates life or life imitates art, it often seems as if the 21st Century is imitating a Hollywood blockbuster. At the moment, as many of us have observed, the current situation seems to be echoing Contagion and 28 Days Later. Before that, the climate crisis – with its news reports about hurricanes, tidal waves and wildfires – felt like every mega-budget movie about a world-shaking apocalypse.
The strange thing is, though, that despite the uneasy connection between environmental news reports and apocalyptic films, climate change is mentioned in hardly any of them. On the big screen, the threats to civilisation as we know it are war (The Book of Eli; Mad Max: Fury Road; Alita: Battle Angel), disease (Zombieland; World War Z; Contagion; Inferno), drugs that were intended to counteract disease (I Am Legend; Rise of the Planet of the Apes), alien invasions (Oblivion; Edge of Tomorrow; A Quiet Place), and demons (This Is The End). Clearly, this glut of doom-laden entertainment was responding to our anxieties about the state of the planet. But the idea that our carbon footprints might have something to do with it doesn’t get a look-in.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200416-why-does-cinema-ignore-climate-change
What is it about these nutjobs? Have they been so indoctrinated by their own propaganda that they have lost all contact with reality?
Does he really believe, for instance, that tidal waves are caused by climate change?
He even thinks that parts of The Day After Tomorrow hold up remarkably well.
The simple reality is that whatever climate change has been occurring has been so slow as not even to be noticeable. Maybe it would actually be a good idea for somebody to make a film, to show that a bit of extra CO2 in the air has not actually changed our lives at all.
It might be rather boring though! Which is probably why nobody has bothered.
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April 28, 2020 at 08:57AM
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