How to Use Satire
A Tale of Fire and Ice
Adam McKay — the filmmaker behind The Big Short and Don’t Look Up — has an incredible talent for conveying a serious message using humor and satire. Here is his take on Big Oil:
If you think about it, the short movie contains a lot of relevant and accurate information:
The Oil Companies know that they are killing us.
They took control in the 1970s.
Climate scientists do not have a message that appeals to the people in power.
The latter are more afraid of climate activism than of climate change.
This is the enemy we face: Big Oil keeps the politicians in power, and politicians keep Big Oil in business. Chris Hedges recently wrote a piece on this:
We will fail unless we manage to break the bond between politicians and big business. It is as simple as that.
As John Dewey said in 1905 (not a typo): "Politics is the shadow cast upon society by big business."
So if you take Money out of politics, what is left? They are alternate spellings of the same word.
Henrik, thanks for your effort, but the ONLY way climate collapse can be mitigated is by INDIVIDUAL ACTION: contraception to reduce populations and consumption of natural resources, and our INDIVIDUAL efforts to dramatically reduce out carbon footprints/ecological footprints. Anything else is just BS.