Hollywood film promotes shrinking humans to fight climate change – Echoes other calls to reduce size of people
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/19/climate-change-hollywood-new-supervillain-geostorm-blade-runner-2049-downsizing By Graeme Virtue Thursday 19 October 2017 07.18 EDT In the forthcoming Downsizing, Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne imagines a near future where eco-conscious Norwegians have developed a sci-fi shrink-ray that can zap people, such as stressed everyman Matt Damon, down to just five inches in height. Everything about this growing community of nu-Lilliputians is smaller – particularly their […]
Goodbye Russians, Arabs, and Villains (RAVs) — Hollywood has a new supervillain — ‘global warming’
Heavy weather … Gerard Butler in Geostorm. Photograph: Ben Rothstein/Warner Bro By Graeme Virtue Thursday 19 October 2017 07.18 EDT In 2004, when climate change was still called global warming, it was considered sensational enough to get top billing in The Day After Tomorrow, a city-smashing blockbuster by disaster master Roland Emmerich. But the incremental death march of […]
HOW THE WORLD BANK KEEPS POOR NATIONS POOR – Nigeria can’t use its own coal ‘because it is not green’
Date: 19/10/17 James Delingpole, The Spectator Its policy of eco-imperialism forces renewables on a reluctant but largely helpless developing world What is the point of the World Bank? You probably think of it, if at all, as a benign institution, a kind of giant, multilateral aid agency, whose job it is to bring liquidity to […]
Polar Bears Are Literally Holding Russian Town of 600 Hostage
CHRIS WHITE Energy Reporter A large group of aggressive polar bears are holding 600 people hostage in a small coastal town in Russia after feasting on the dead carcasses of a nearby colony of walruses. Local officials believe the polar bears, a specie known for its intelligence, forced hundreds of walruses to jump off 125ft […]