The Age of Stupid
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Loading ... - Published date: January 6, 2011
- Category: Environment, Featured
- Tags: Environment
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The Age of Stupid stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? It is a co-production between Franny’s company Spanner Films and Executive Producer John Battsek’s (One Day In September) company Passion Pictures. The production was notable for its innovative way crowd-funding financing model, as well as the Indie Screenings distribution system which allows anyone anywhere to screen the film.
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Saw this with green peace, pretty good flick
Exceptionally done. Very fluid in how its puts everything together.
Quite well done and almost all fine, except for the man-caused global warming scarecrow, that is wrong on so many levels it’s sad (water vapor being the most important greenhouse gas by far, high levels of CO2 actually supporting plantlife and warmer climate meaning richer crops and better conditions for life overall).
Did you miss something? Maybe you didn’t actually watch it. The whole, “man made global warming myth,” was the theme of the piece. Your resistance cognitive dissonance is truly Herculean.
Well, yes, it was the theme of the piece, but if you eliminate man-produced C02 as a factor, exactly nothing substantial changes about the future dystopia, environmental message or final conclusion. Sun- or any kind of pollution-driven change of climate would still pose the same problem and require us to change the economy in exactly the same way.
I have a question that maybe someone from the UK or a clean energy pro can answer. These homeowners’ associations organizing to stop windfarms seem to be quite effective at maintaining their short-term property values and doing their small part to kill us all. But we see that some homeowners are going along, specifically, the ones who stand to financially benefit.
Now that kind of thing is standard in pretty much all development good or bad, from oil & gas to WAL-MART and all through history. And for centuries now, there has been a clear solution: cut them in, and they will shut up. This is especially true in cases of a minor nuisance like a windfarm as opposed to, say, a taking of peoples’ homes to build parking lots. So, why don’t these wind-farmers just offer the upset property owners a tiny little profit-share to go away and these things can be built in peace?