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Don’t Make Me Watch

January 24, 2022

Don’t Make Me Watch The new climate film celebrates malpractice martyrdom, and enviros of all stripes are cheering it on I had to force myself to watch Don’t Look Up. It was painful. Just as painful as it’s been to watch the litany of reviews extolling its virtues, with one righteous climate scientist and environmentalist after […]

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Spot The Illusions We Tell Ourselves

January 24, 2022

Spot The Illusions We Tell Ourselves Whitewater Falls, North Carolina Recently there have been a rather large number of occurrences which shine a light on some positive progress being made on ecological overshoot. Unfortunately, many outlets and even scientists have made claims about so-called “solutions” which are anything but, and generally they’re simply not true. […]

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Don’t Look Up! There’s Nobody There!

January 14, 2022

Don’t Look Up! There’s Nobody There! On December 24, 2021, Netflix released a new film titled “Don’t Look Up.” It is an apocalyptic thriller about an earth-killing asteroid and is being rated among the top 10, along with a monster flick, an art crime flick and a snuff film. As a piece of entertainment it is […]

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Losing It

January 14, 2022

Losing It Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart? No wonder journalists have slated it. They’ve produced a hundred excuses not to watch the climate breakdown satire Don’t Look Up: it’s “blunt”, it’s “shrill”, it’s “smug”. But they […]

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It’s okay to look up

January 12, 2022

It’s okay to look up I am told I should look into filing a copyright claim against the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, since I wrote a version of it in my 2015 book, The Consciousness of Sheep, and for exactly the same reason: “We’ve all seen this movie before: A giant asteroid is heading straight for […]

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‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science

January 11, 2022

‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science In ‘Don’t Look Up,’ scientists played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence watch with horror as people willfully ignore warnings of an impending disaster. Entertainment Pictures/Alamy Stock Photo Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look […]

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Why Pundits ‘Don’t Look Up’ from Progress

January 5, 2022

Why Pundits ‘Don’t Look Up’ from Progress The new film about a total apocalypse of the human race is being slammed by many film reviewers. But when I chat to people who have seen it they think it brilliant. And my Facebook wall is full of friends writing versions of OMG what a film! So […]

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 “Don’t Look Up” (part 1) – climate movie is kryptonite to the super villains

January 2, 2022

 “Don’t Look Up” (part 1) – climate movie is kryptonite to the super villains You know a satirical movie has hit its target when the mainstream reviewers call it “shrill” and “overblown.” That’s what’s happened to the brash comedy “Don’t Look Up” which was released on Netflix the day before Christmas. Most of the mainstream reviewers […]

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