Posted on 10/19/2017 7:17:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In 2004, when climate change was still called global warming, it was considered sensational enough to get top billing in The Day After Tomorrow, a city-smashing blockbuster by disaster master Roland Emmerich.
In 2017, the desire to accelerate climate change even in the name of brash, mass-market pop art is quaint yet horrifying. The nagging feeling that humankind may already have zoomed past some sort of ecological tipping point thanks to our voracious appetites for cheap energy and consumer goods seems increasingly undeniable. Previously, we looked to the multiplex to vicariously experience the catastrophic aftermath of freak super-storms and monster tsunamis; now we see these images appear with increasing and distressing regularity in the news.
Perhaps that is why climate change is a common theme across a broad range of movies this year, either as an obvious baddie or a subtextual spectre. The forthcoming eco-thriller Geostorm optimistically suggests that we could circumvent the cataclysmic heavy weather caused by climate change if only we tasked someone like scientist-astronaut Gerard Butler to invent a network of weather-controlling satellites.
Any real-world solution to our inescapable climate change problem is likely to be similarly and uncomfortably extreme an even more inconvenient truth. Until we overcome our indifference to this monumental problem, the outlook is only going to get worse.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Heh, if ONLY they could pay attention...if ONLY!
I swear, they are all insane.
And wolves in Manhattan!
They would like it to be but it can only happen in a remake of the original Batman series - complete with the "BAM!" and the "Wham!" sound effects.
Whatta joke!
It is interesting how people who call themselves "progressive" are so wedded to stasis.
Geostorm. LOL!! Saw the preview of that one. Looks silly.
Well the brit dude who is the “hero” seems to be proud of this action packed thrill ride with tsunamis and fire tornadoes blah blah blah. Including a new improved space shuttle to reach the weather control station. But still using an external tank and boosters to lift off and reach orbit.
I wonder how many Millennials will believe he actually said that? Probably the same number that think the Dragons seen on Game of Thrones actually existed.
Hollywood is a super villain.
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They don’t want people to watch their movies anymore with the way they are going.
Climate Change, NRA, SUV’s... all BS justifications the lowlifes in Hollywood use to molest children and bully young women...
Yeah Hollywood - we’re sooooo impressed. /s
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