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‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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It was also criticized for being "too on the nose", which is exactly the type of behavior that the movie was criticizing. Basically the world is ending and when someone tries to raise awareness people don't react, so they get louder and lose patience because the world is fucking ending, and then get told not to be alarmist and to stop freaking out. It's the plot of the movie, and it's what happened to the movie.