The Age of Stupid: New Climate Change Movie

NO ONE likes being preached to, which doesn’t bode well for any film on climate change. The latest offering is the part sci-fi movie, part-documentary The Age of Stupid. Set in 2055 on a flooded, damaged, inhospitable Earth, a lone man, played by Pete Postlethwaite, guards a historical archive and bemoans that earlier generations did not prevent climate change.

It is worthy, though not riveting, cinema, but it has a very clever feature: much of the film is a patchwork of real news clips of remarkable single weather events from the early 2000s. Isolated events cannot be wholly blamed on global warming but, together, the staggering accumulation of severe hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and more is probably the result of climate change. By displaying these events side by side, the film compellingly shows that climate change is real, providing 20/20 hindsight while there is still time to act.

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