'Age of Stupid' review

I wrote this and forgot to post it. Disregard references to time, this was about a month ago.


I saw 'Age of Stupid' last night.  I was told that the theater was sold out, and there were about 20 people there.  I'll try to find out what happened and blog about it.

I was impressed with how well the director was on top of the reality of climate change, both the science and the policy.  Kudos for UK Environment Minister Ed Miliband http://www.edmilibandmp.com/ for bravely showing up at the New York premiere.  At the UK premiere in March, with Miliband on stage, the main actor, Pete Postelthwaite http://www.ageofstupid.net/people/pete_postlethwaite signed a pledge to give back is Order of the British Empire if the British Government didn't do the right thing in Copenhagen.

Last night, Franny Armstrong, the director of the film, invited Miliband to the stage again after the NY screening tonight, and live to over 60 countries in over 400 theaters, she proceeded to mercilessly ask him dogged question after question about the pledged emissions target of the UK only giving a 50% chance of preventing runaway climate change, and why he only wanted to give the world a 50% chance of avoiding runaway climate change.

Kofi Annan.  Moby powered by people. A musician with Radiohead (don't recall his name had one of the most memorable lines of the whole night: 'Economy of limitless growth is dead.'  Look forward to the economists (besides Nicholas Stern) waking up to that.

The best The woman who defeated allowing wind mills being created near her home, doggedly insisting she is taking action on climate change.

Grist.org has described 'Age of Stupid' as being 'scare tactics', but I wholeheartedly disagree.  It's truth tactics, plain and simple.  The stark, unavoidable plain truth is what she described, pure and simple.

Best audio of the movie: director Franny Armstrong accidently broadcast live saying "f@$%*!g s&$t!"  Best image:  children filmed in the room where the Copenhagen climate