Should you watch The Age of Stupid?
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The Age of Stupid
Documentary · 2009
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?
The sides of The Age of Stupid
- Pete Postlethwaite alone in a ruined 2055
- Real people filmed in 2008
- An archive of a world that didn't act
The Age of Stupid is good for you if…
- you want real lives from 2008 tied to climate change.
- you care about glaciers, oil and what we do to the planet.
- you want to see why governments and businesses didn't act in time.
The Age of Stupid is bad for you if…
- you roll your eyes at a film that asks you to act.
- you need hope, and a ruined future is too much for you.
About: climate change · responsibility · the future
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