I'm grateful to see another movie talking about climate change via storytelling and not documentary style with charts and graphs (and bonus for using actual quotes of French politicians/commentators!). Am also grateful for the pivot to Arielle's reporting on real world mutation, heat issues. (And fun to see our furry family featured this newsletter!)
I haven't watched this movie, nor do I think I will after reading this as I understand the message. I don't need a European remake of Jaws to tell me what we already know but, collectively choose to largely ignore. Global warming is here to stay. But humans fight changes to their cozy environments, especially in this day and age when there are large sums of money involved.
As we know, the planetary ecosystem doesn't change overnight and we are seeing that play out right in front of us. I am nearing 70 years and I can look back now and see how global warming has accelerated in my lifetime and it is just getting started in earnest. I don't believe there is any way to turn it back now. We are at the point in the planetary evolution where all we as humans can do is try to mitigate it as best as we can and make ready for the mass dies offs and climate migrants who will be looking for food and relief from the heat over the next 75 years or more. I won't be alive for the majority of that but I will help my children and grandchildren for as long as I am still above ground. It's all we can do now.
I loved this article. Of course the issues are serious and I like that movies are integrating climate into their disaster stories, but I laughed so hard at the sharks mutating sentence.
In terms of specifically the Olympics and those related heat issues, I have always liked the idea of permanently relocating it to somewhere in Greece and rotating the "host" countries, since I think heat problems are only here to stay and get worse, especially in other places. But for other countries stadiums or events like the World Cup it will take the athletes speaking out about the heat to actually make change there imo, like one of the link says.
I'll check the movie out but I have a love-hate relationship with sharks. I think they are absolutely amazing animals, but it seems like every time I have a nightmare related to a body of water I get attacked by sharks.
Nice piece Arielle. Thanks. I left Netflix a few years ago, so I cannot watch unfortunately. From your description and the trailer, it’s definitely something I would watch. Art wins again.
One thing I noticed was the seeming passivity of the athletes — the workers in this situation as well as stand-ins for the average person. There’s the usual hero and anti-hero figures centered in the story with the rest of us waiting for a decision and orders from on high.
I'm grateful to see another movie talking about climate change via storytelling and not documentary style with charts and graphs (and bonus for using actual quotes of French politicians/commentators!). Am also grateful for the pivot to Arielle's reporting on real world mutation, heat issues. (And fun to see our furry family featured this newsletter!)
I haven't watched this movie, nor do I think I will after reading this as I understand the message. I don't need a European remake of Jaws to tell me what we already know but, collectively choose to largely ignore. Global warming is here to stay. But humans fight changes to their cozy environments, especially in this day and age when there are large sums of money involved.
As we know, the planetary ecosystem doesn't change overnight and we are seeing that play out right in front of us. I am nearing 70 years and I can look back now and see how global warming has accelerated in my lifetime and it is just getting started in earnest. I don't believe there is any way to turn it back now. We are at the point in the planetary evolution where all we as humans can do is try to mitigate it as best as we can and make ready for the mass dies offs and climate migrants who will be looking for food and relief from the heat over the next 75 years or more. I won't be alive for the majority of that but I will help my children and grandchildren for as long as I am still above ground. It's all we can do now.
I loved this article. Of course the issues are serious and I like that movies are integrating climate into their disaster stories, but I laughed so hard at the sharks mutating sentence.
In terms of specifically the Olympics and those related heat issues, I have always liked the idea of permanently relocating it to somewhere in Greece and rotating the "host" countries, since I think heat problems are only here to stay and get worse, especially in other places. But for other countries stadiums or events like the World Cup it will take the athletes speaking out about the heat to actually make change there imo, like one of the link says.
I'll check the movie out but I have a love-hate relationship with sharks. I think they are absolutely amazing animals, but it seems like every time I have a nightmare related to a body of water I get attacked by sharks.
Thank you for the article Arielle!
Nice piece Arielle. Thanks. I left Netflix a few years ago, so I cannot watch unfortunately. From your description and the trailer, it’s definitely something I would watch. Art wins again.
One thing I noticed was the seeming passivity of the athletes — the workers in this situation as well as stand-ins for the average person. There’s the usual hero and anti-hero figures centered in the story with the rest of us waiting for a decision and orders from on high.