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The news each day has sobering similarities to the theme of the satirical film. The Guardian, as part of an appeal for reader financial support said:
We face an epochal, unthinkable prospect: of perhaps the two greatest existential threats – environmental breakdown and food system failure – converging, as one triggers the other.
So why isn’t this all over the front pages? Why, when governments know we’re facing existential risk, do they fail to act?
Looking back on previous human calamities, all of which will be dwarfed by this, you find yourself repeatedly asking “why didn’t they … ?” The answer is power: the power of a few to countermand the interests of humanity. It always has been, but the stakes are now higher than ever.
The Guardian (fundraising email 7/28/23)
Russia seeks to prevent Ukraine’s food crops from being distributed, and crops elsewhere are in peril due to man-made environmental changes. Yet here at home GOP leadership talks of hobbling or eliminating our government’s Department of Environmental Protection.
Don’t Look Up!