If We Can’t Come Together on COVID, These Disasters Are Next (only 9.10 years left)

Daily Beast ^ | 01/01/22 | David Rothkopf

[Libloather]

The new Netflix film Don’t Look Up is a star-studded allegory about climate change. The world faces a clear and imminent threat, and the question the movie poses is: Will we be able to overcome the narrow self-interests of politicians, the business community, and individual nations to defeat the threat we collectively face? Will too many people around the world be too gullible and passive to demand the right actions from their leaders?

In the case of the film, it does not give away too much to suggest that doing the right thing is a challenge. The film is not just a parable about our inertia when it comes to the ever worsening, nearly irreversible climate crisis - it is a reminder that the idea that the planet will effectively unite in the interest of self-preservation is itself a romantic myth.

**SNIP**

The result of course, has been the emergence of new variants in the undervaccinated parts of the world that ultimately affect the whole planet and prolong the pandemic. For Americans, the short-sightedness of government leaders is familiar. While the Biden Administration has done a remarkable job in getting Americans vaccinated, they have faced resistance at every step of the way from red-state governors who seem willing to sacrifice their own people in order to pander to the leaders of their party and the most extreme elements of their base. The vaccine and the know-how to contain the disease are available everywhere. But people living in counties that voted for Donald Trump are almost three times as likely to die of COVID-19 as those in areas that voted for President Biden.

[ThunderSleeps]

If the guy that made it was serious, then he is seriously unhinged. Because that was satire. No other way to see it. If that is the lens through which he sees the world, and how he sees people acting, he needs professional help.

[Macoozie]

“a star-studded allegory about climate change”

oh boy!
That lead-in really makes me wanna watch it.

/s

[joma89]

This reminds me to burn more wood this winter.

[Thommas]

While the Biden Administration has done a remarkable job in getting Americans vaccinated, they have faced resistance at
every step of the way from red-state governors who seem willing to sacrifice their own people in order to pander to
the leaders of their party and the most extreme elements of their base.

Wackjob is right. This communist dialogue ejaculation is a masterful summation of the Leftist dream-scape.

[Hiddigeigei]

“...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” --- H. L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women