The film is a powerful "docudrama" set in the year 2055, after global warming has done massive damage to humanity. Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite stars as a historian who "looks back" on real footage from 2008 to try to answer the question, "why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?"
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The problem is that the film appears to use massively hyped and inflated notions of what physical damage is possible in the next 45 years. And this is going to make it an easy target and a poster child for scientifically absurd views on the side of those who recognize climate change as a real problem... which it is. The real problems are likely to be large economic costs, and significant personal suffering as we have to adapt to changing conditions.
What's your opinion of James Burke's "After The Warming"? That was quite an early influence on me.
Ian! ATW is one of those thing that materialized while I was dividing my time between intense study and teaching and being in Zaire. But I just glanced at it and I love the fact that he starts out in Japanese and appears to have laser eye mouse capabilities.
I'll have to put this in a post!