Dire warnings are pouring in from the climate change conference in Copenhagen: global warming is accelerating far beyond even the worst predictions and threatening to trigger ‘irreversible shifts’ on the planet. Sea levels will rise twice as fast as previously thought. The Antarctic food web is already being altered by warming seas. And yet, despite all of this, there’s still a sizable chunk of the world population that believes we don’t need to act on global warming.
Decades from now, when the world is changed beyond repair and millions of people are suffering, won’t we be looking back and asking ourselves, why didn’t we act? A film called The Age of Stupid examines just such a scenario. Starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055 looking back at footage from 2008, the film asks that all-important question.
“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t. It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?”
The film debuts in the UK today, March 15th, and will be screening at the San Francisco Film Festival in April. The U.S. will get to see it in theaters this September. We’ll let you know the exact date as soon as it’s confirmed.
Link [The Age of Stupid]
