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Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change?
NY Times ^ | Aug. 14, 2019 | Cara Buckley

Posted on 08/20/2019 2:18:04 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Humans ruined everything. They bred too much and choked the life out of the land, air and sea.

And so they must be vaporized by half, or attacked by towering monsters, or vanquished by irate dwellers from the oceans’ polluted depths. Barring that, they face hardscrabble, desperate lives on a once verdant Earth now consumed by ice or drought.

That is how many recent superhero and sci-fi movies — among them the latest Avengers and Godzilla pictures as well as “Aquaman,” “Snowpiercer,” “Blade Runner 2049,” “Interstellar” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” — have invoked the climate crisis. They imagine postapocalyptic futures or dystopias where ecological collapse is inevitable, environmentalists are criminals, and eco-mindedness is the driving force of villains.

But these takes are defeatist, critics say, and a growing chorus of voices is urging the entertainment industry to tell more stories that show humans adapting and reforming to ward off the worst climate threats.

“More than ever, they’re missing the mark, often in the same way,” said Michael Svoboda, a writing professor at George Washington University and author at the multimedia site Yale Climate Connections. “Almost none of these films depict a successful transformation of society.”

In “Avengers: Infinity War,” the archnemesis, Thanos, opts to head off environmental collapse by reducing humanity — along with all living beings — by half. In “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” eco-terrorists unleash predatory beasts to forestall mass extinction and keep the human population in check. In “Aquaman,” King Orm, the leader of an undersea kingdom, concludes that the only way to prevent earthly destruction is to wage war on humans.

David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, one of the writers of “Aquaman,” said using pollution as a motivator made Orm more relatable and less “mustache-twirly,” and added, “It gave him some nuance.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies; Weather
KEYWORDS: agitprop; algore; climatechange; climatechangehoax; dicaprio; doomsdaycult; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hollywood; hollywoodreds; leonarddicaprio; marvel; mythmaking
If they are so scared, they should give up their mansions and private jets.
1 posted on 08/20/2019 2:18:04 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Wanna know how to see the “global warming” scam? How it is not for saving the world, not to help save people, not for saving the polar bear and is all about massively growing government power?

1. The most far left wing rich/celebrity/politician supporters of “global warming” continue to buy uber-expensive beach front property. Beach front property, all around world, continues to rise in price. If they believed their own hype, beach front property should be worthless and they wouldn’t go anywhere near it.

2. The most far left wing rich/celebrity/politician supporters of “global warming” are the most radical anti-nuclear power nuts you can find. Think about it, a power source that is capable of providing the power needs to an entire country without adding one “green house” gas or emission. If “global warming” was that real and that imminent, they would be screaming to close down every fossil fuel power generation station (to include natural gas) and replace it with nuclear power.

3. When “scientists” or government bureaucrats find flaws in their data or models suggesting that their global warming doom predictions are not true or greatly exaggerated - they are sad or angry about it. Or even try to hide the new data. Any normal person, when told they and family were basically were about to die in a melting earth in the very near future, would be jumping for joy on finding this new data. They would partying on their new lease on life singing “We are saved from destruction!” But not these scammers.


2 posted on 08/20/2019 2:22:09 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: EdnaMode

Mad Max is post-nuclear

Hence the accusation in Fury Road hurrled at the hapless young warrior, “Who killed the world?”


3 posted on 08/20/2019 2:22:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

Last time it was that warm, Vikings were invading.

So there is that.


4 posted on 08/20/2019 2:23:01 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: EdnaMode
This tradition goes back to the end of the 1914-1945 calamity. Sci-Fi movies started coming out where the heroes had to save Earth from something. Where did that something come from?

Well, in the Godzilla movies the engine of destruction came from across the Pacific to the East, awakened by a nuclear bomb. Sound familiar?

The nuclear destruction thing didn't pan out, so global warming or some other thing will have to do for Hollywood.

5 posted on 08/20/2019 2:26:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: 2banana

Exactly. Hear what they say. Watch what they do. They don’t square nor add up.

It reeks of scam and hoax.


6 posted on 08/20/2019 2:27:00 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: EdnaMode

Guess Hollywood has been studying & producing their own brand of baloney for so long that they are starting to believe it is real steak.


7 posted on 08/20/2019 2:28:54 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: EdnaMode

They’re not scared. It’s a way for them to accumulate more money and adulation.


8 posted on 08/20/2019 2:32:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: oldtech

Hollywood is inhabited by shallow thinkers, unable to grasp abstract concepts. Also, fantasy is their reality.


9 posted on 08/20/2019 2:32:46 PM PDT by myerson
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To: BenLurkin

Because global warming causes gender inequity!


10 posted on 08/20/2019 2:33:56 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: EdnaMode

If they are so scared, they should give up their mansions and private jets.


It’s all about virtue signaling and embracing a cause that unambiguously shows what a good, wise person they are. After all, they’re trying to save the planet, so that entitles them to bennies (relative to the great unwashed masses). In their minds, if they have to pollute the planet a little, so save it, then so be it.

That being said, it IS a good point that the villains in these movies are often radical Environmentalists. Or power mad lunatics who use the Environment as an excuse for their evil. To me, its the equivalent of a Freudian slip.


11 posted on 08/20/2019 2:50:11 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: EdnaMode

They’re not scared...they’re the propaganda arm of the communist left.
The left is drooling over all those taxes, fees and regulations they’ll get to control.
They all belong in an asylum...better yet, GITMO.


12 posted on 08/20/2019 3:25:44 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: TigersEye

“They’re not scared. It’s a way for them to accumulate more money and adulation.”

And as part of the global elite further the end goal of population control.

They are the popular faces helping set up the con and trap.


13 posted on 08/20/2019 3:28:48 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: BenLurkin

How hot did the world get when everyone was dropping test nukes from 1945-1960s?


14 posted on 08/20/2019 3:39:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Commitee)
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To: TigersEye

Yes, they only make what sells and reaps huge profits. They try to avoid making lots of “Battlefield Earth” and “Heavan’s Gate” and “Ishtar” type films.


15 posted on 08/20/2019 5:17:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That is true. They make films that promote their leftist agendas, no doubt about it.

I suspect they have other money making ventures going other than films that are tied into GlobalClimateWarmingChange BS. Carbon credits and who knows what else.


16 posted on 08/20/2019 5:28:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: School of Rational Thought

The Vikings haven’t invaded the Super Bowl in quite a while now.


17 posted on 08/20/2019 5:30:26 PM PDT by xp38
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To: EdnaMode

Hey here’s an idea. A crazy black environmental leftist hunts Hollywood celebrities living large in their mansions, kills them, and he gives everything that they owned to the poor and homeless living on the street.. Call it “Robbin’ Da Hood!” Its art, so I’m sure that celebrities will come out to support it!


18 posted on 08/20/2019 7:26:51 PM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Mad Max is post-nuclear”

yep. NYT is compelled to lie even about the little things ...


19 posted on 08/21/2019 10:35:02 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Because in a world of difficulties, the mentally ill and inadaquate fall below the darwinian thresholds of survival.

It is hard to cheat reality - something ‘hollywood’ has little grasp of.


20 posted on 08/28/2019 2:27:58 AM PDT by elbook
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