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You’re allowed to hate Netflix’s Don’t Look Up and still believe in climate change Climate Change

You’re allowed to hate Netflix’s Don’t Look Up and still believe in climate change

Don't Look Up, director Adam McKay's star-studded feature film that offers an allegorical take on the climate crisis, only debuted on Netflix a little over a month ago. Yet its performance during that relatively brief window of time has been — well, nothing short of staggering. For the 7-day period…
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January 7, 2022
Don’t Look Up Illustrates 5 Myths That Fuel Rejection of Science Climate Change

Don’t Look Up Illustrates 5 Myths That Fuel Rejection of Science

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look Up” is no exception—in fact, people ignoring or flat out denying scientific evidence is the point. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play…
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January 7, 2022
We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work Climate Change

We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work

I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers pointed out dead puffin chicks. As other climate war zones smolder with wildfire embers, are strewn with flattened homes, or marked by bleached…
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January 7, 2022
Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change Climate Change

Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change

“Alternate reality allows us to push the levers pressuring societies to extremes that wouldn’t really be possible in a realistic setting,” Frostpunk design director Jakub Stokalski tells WIRED. “And what happens to large groups of people under pressure—that’s truly the theme.” While Frostpunk’s volcanic backstory lets humanity off the hook,…
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January 6, 2022
Streaming Movie Recommendations Climate Change

Streaming Movie Recommendations

Don’t Look Up – available on Netflix Adam McKay’s satirical comedy on the response to climate change and the pandemic is successfully able to get comedy out of a dire situation, as a comet hurtles towards the planet. McKay isn’t afraid to target governments, multi-billionaires and celebrity worship culture, as…
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January 5, 2022