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"The Age of Stupid" - quintessential film about climate change
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The Age of Stupid
Every once in a while a film comes along that shifts and sort of cleanses the lens of your perception. Last night in 440 theaters in 63 countries in the world, thousands of people got this sobering image that hopefully awoke them to a daunting reality.
This film, as riveting as it is, gives us a terrifying glance at our sleeping collective consciousness in regards to the pertinent survival issues at hand.
In her eco-inspired direction, Franny Armstrong, has an awe inspiring answer to the quandary of climate change; Look in your own back yard. Examine your own life to learn where you can begin to become a part of a tsunami of intelligence and activism to make this change happen.
The film is set in the future where we get to witness the inevitable bullet train of destruction of stupid human behavior. It's just stupid to use all the plastics we do. It's just stupid to burn oil that has an inevitable limit and burn coal that pollutes the air. It's just stupid not to clean up after ourselves. And although it may not be the entire answer to the climate changes we are at the increasing brunt of, it's just stupid not to try to make common sense changes when they could slow things down considerably.
One of the best lines from the film was, "The people who came before us didn’t know about climate change and the ones who come after will be powerless to stop it." It was engrossing, engaging and a must see and participate film.
Here’s what Franny has to say about her film — and the environment — at Huffington Post:
I was born in the ’70s as part of the MTV generation who were told by a squillion adverts that the point of our existence was to shop more. Daunting though the task ahead may be, I feel enormously inspired and quite relieved that it turns out that we have something important to do. The people who came before us didn’t know about climate change and the ones who come after will be powerless to stop it. So it’s down to us. Other generations came together to overturn slavery or end apartheid or win the vote for women. There is nothing intrinsically more useless about our generation and there is no doubt about what we have to do. The only question which remains is whether or not we give it a go.
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