Publication: Yahoo News 

UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability 

Synopsis: Many scientists are praising the new film, ‘Don’t Look Up,’ for its role as a climate change parable. Focused on two astronomers warning of a world-ending comet, the movie shows how an indifferent and distracted world reacts poorly to such an urgent scientific report. 

UCLA News: Swain praises how the movie represents the core of how society approaches disaster. “[‘Don’t Look Up’] sort of distills a lot of the societal and systemic issues that relate not only to climate change, but to a bunch of other global-scale society problems like the pandemic, to its most essential form. There’s hard empirical evidence that a very bad thing is going to happen, but that it potentially can be completely averted, in all likelihood, if society and governments do what needs to be done quickly enough. And despite that overwhelming evidence, the things that need to be done aren’t done, for reasons that have more to do with political ideology and money than anything else.”  

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