Special triangles should have appeared to help everyone instead.
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ch00f@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t Look Up: have the plan to privatize the asteroid defense operation actually work. The people refusing to look up think they were right and refuse to acknowledge how much danger they were in. So even if the world is saved, no lessons are learned and nothing is made better.
Feel like that would fit the climate change/COVID metaphor better.
ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
How would that fit the climate change metaphor? That implies we are actually fixing climate change.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ya that would make it closer to something like the Ozone layer problem. But even then, I think that was fixed with government regulations, not privatizing things.
ch00f@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because the fix in the movie is really a bandaid. It was provided by a private party for profit, and next time if it’s not profitable, it won’t work.
I mean, it’s not like individual people can stop a doomsday asteroid, so the metaphor kind of breaks anyway. But there is a bit of an assumption in the environment sense that technology will somehow solve our problems when the real problem is us.
The ozone problem only got fixed because in that case there was a 1:1 replacement to the offending technology. There isn’t a 1:1 replacement to fossil fuels. It will almost certainly require some kind of societal change.