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What do you think about the Age of Stupid?
Have you seen the Age of Stupid? What did you think?
AOS is a new movie premiering last week. It stars Pete Postlewaite as the narrator & then has the real life stories of about 6-8 people: A french mountaineer in Mont Blanc, a wind engineer in the UK, 2 Iraqi children, a medical student in Nigeria, an oil worker from New Orleans, & an Indian business man setting up the 1st cheap airline. Pete is in 2065 living in an archive of civilisation looking back to 2008 to see what were we thinking - we knew climate change was happening yet did very little to act. http://www.ageofstupid.net/
The film gives lots of room for thought, however, the stories of action, inspiration and the possible for successfully tackling climate change are left undiscussed, which I found frustrating. There is an AOS campaign running outside the film, but what I really want to see is storytelling of climate solutions within a film.
Best, Catheirne
AOS is a new movie premiering last week. It stars Pete Postlewaite as the narrator & then has the real life stories of about 6-8 people: A french mountaineer in Mont Blanc, a wind engineer in the UK, 2 Iraqi children, a medical student in Nigeria, an oil worker from New Orleans, & an Indian business man setting up the 1st cheap airline. Pete is in 2065 living in an archive of civilisation looking back to 2008 to see what were we thinking - we knew climate change was happening yet did very little to act. http://www.ageofstupid.net/
The film gives lots of room for thought, however, the stories of action, inspiration and the possible for successfully tackling climate change are left undiscussed, which I found frustrating. There is an AOS campaign running outside the film, but what I really want to see is storytelling of climate solutions within a film.
Best, Catheirne
I’m wanting to see something inspiring.
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Inappropriate?Hi Catherine
I agree with you. While it's a compelling addition to the already numerous examples of 'I have a nightmare', what would be much better is if more energy was put into creating 'I have a dream' stories: visualising what society could look like if we did this and that. Then people might have something to inspire them to action, rather than scaring them rigid.
I know some people are working on visions of the future - The Transition Timeline is a good example of this - but if as much energy was to go into this as goes into painting pictures of doom we might be able to all start on a journey, knowing where it is we want to end up, rather than where we don't want go.
I'm also slightly worried about the campaign that goes with Age of Stupid. Labelling things 'stupid' and 'not stupid' doesn't necessarily seem the best way to start a dialogue and engage people with change. Rather a sure fire way of being told where to go.
I’m also keen to be inspired
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Inappropriate?I do hope this film is successful, but for me it did not live up to the hype. At the half way point I thought I was watching an anti Iraq war film instead of one promoting action against climate change. Maybe it is not aimed at my age group (60+). I have believed in the need for action on climate change for about 30 years now and there was little new for me here. I much preferred 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
I’m disappointed
