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The Age of Stupid
2009 · Film · documentary · 92 min
Directed by Franny Armstrong
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
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Article from Cambridge University journal "Polar Record" [0] (I came across this while looking up the film "The Age of Stupid" [1], which IIRC had the Svalbard Seed Bank as more-or-less the last place standing after severe climate change).
"The trouble with local community in Longyearbyen, Svalbard: How big politics and lack of fellesskap hinder a not-yet-decided future"
[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/trouble-with-local-community-in-longyearbyen-svalbard-how-big-politics-and-lack-of-fellesskap-hinder-a-notyetdecided-future/22F2A72B1F3EF4D33A7DA812B81D22EC#
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Stupid
> Nobody gives a shit about global warming or pollution.
Plenty of people do.
> Nobody cares that your email gets marked as spam if you pick some other email provider. People will just ask you to switch to gmail.
Yes, that's one more example of network effects at work.
> Nobody cares that you now use Firefox and their website does not work well.
True, but then they'll lose me as a potential customer. They probably don't care so point taken.
> Nobody cares about the insane things we dump _every_ day in the oceans.
The worst to me are things that are manufactured in order to be thrown away. Tools that are so bad you can't use them even once, consumer goods whose sole feature is they are created to be presents that nobody ever uses afterwards, packaging, mountains of packaging, all kinds of disposable paper goods. It's incredible.
Have you watched the movie "The age of stupid?"
If you have try to reconcile that with the current head of the EPA being who he is...
So even if those decisions are all made - in principle - of people's own volition our views of the world and our actions in it are shaped to a fairly large extent by governments, corporate entities and media (this comment being a part of that because of the reference to the movie above).
> But people are not prepared to make any sacrifice at a personal level.
Some people are. Generalizations are hard.