“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” —Edmund Burke

How About the “The Age Of Opportunity?”

Posted: May 12th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Behavior, Global Warming, Transformational Change | No Comments »
Pete Postlewaite

Smile For the Camera, Please

I finally watched The Age of Stupid last night. Wow, what a wake-up call.

Not because I now know that glaciers are melting, or that Shell is flaring natural gas in Nigeria and poisoning ecosystems and generally doing Very Bad Things, or that Range-Rover-piloting NIMBYs are successfully halting British wind farms, or that India has a new and very popular low-cost airline run by an evidently rather unpleasant CEO.

I already know most of these things. But lots of people, presumably the film’s target audience, don’t. As Age of Stupid pans back into space in its final frames, leaving a dead future planet cluttered with junk satellites — Wall-E’s opening scene, except in reverse–the filmmakers were likely hoping I would be fired up to take political action.

I wasn’t.
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