Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change?

Watch this video ad-free, and get access to exclusive content on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/lsoo Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: A critical review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up. Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to https://acorn.tv/ and use promo code likestoriesofold Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:35 Why The Big Short was great 09:03 Vice, also not bad 11:22 Don't Look Up takes a different approach 13:06 The struggle to storify climate change 14:31 Climate change as a communication problem 17:19 Why the comet just doesn't work 19:55 Simplifying the real problem 25:12 American Exceptionalism 29:07 Self-caused vs. random event 32:14 The pain of a disconnected world 39:31 Epilogue Sources: Bruno Latour - Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime: https://amzn.to/3o0kmLo Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World: https://amzn.to/3u1NfuA Ulrich Beck - Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity: https://amzn.to/35fs5yA Ulrich Beck - The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World: https://amzn.to/3Iv4to6 Madeleine Heyward - Equity and international climate change negotiations: A matter of perspective: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228979376_Equity_and_international_climate_change_negotiations_A_matter_of_perspective Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear Media included: Don’t Look Up; The Big Short; Vice; An Inconvenient Truth 1 &2; South Park; The Day After Tomorrow Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (London Symphony Orchestra) Lights & Motion – Ghost of You Mullaha – Luxury Slow Meadow – A Distant Glow Madron – Without Illusion Slow Meadow – On a Bed of Green Blades Brique a Braq – Du Repos Slow Meadow – Blue Aubade Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252 Additional Music: Dear Gravity – Fire Sleeper Borrtex - Light Dear Gravity – The Collector