.ZeeshanAleem: What Netflix's 'Don't Look Up' gets wrong about tackling climate change
McKay’s new movie, which comes after hiscenters on the quest of two scientists to persuade the world that a planet-killing comet is hurtling toward Earth, only to run up against a corrupt, self-interested political class, avaricious Silicon Valley billionaires who want to mine the comet for rare minerals and a media world addicted to frivolity.
The central conceit of the film and its repeated attempts to indict the media actually obscure more than they enlighten. But my primary interest here is the political impact: Does “Don’t Look Up” give us a clearer picture of our society’s struggle to tackle climate change? On this front, it has a mixed record: It gets some things right, but the central conceit of the film and its repeated attempts to indict the media likely obscure more than they enlighten. Ironically, a movie about the difficulty of focus may be distracting us from some of the real problems that lie ahead.
We’re invited to see a cable news show that repeatedly hosts the scientists who discovered the comet as a stand-in for our brain-dead media. When the scientists initially plead for the pundits to take the issue of an extinction-level threat seriously, the hosts remind them that “we just keep the bad news light.
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