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| name = The Age of Stupid |
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| image = Pete_Postlethwaite.jpg |
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| caption = Pete Postlethwaite in 2055 |
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| director = [[Franny Armstrong]] |
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| producer = [[John Battsek]]<br />[[Lizzie Gillett]] |
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| starring = [[Pete Postlethwaite]] |
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| music = [[Chris Brierley]] |
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| editing = [[David G. Hill]] |
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| released = [[May 2008]], [[2008 in film|2008]] |
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| country = {{UK}} |
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| language = [[English language|English]] |
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| website = http://www.crudemovie.net |
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==Release== |
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The Age of Stupid is aiming to premiere at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in May 2008. |
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==Plot== |
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This ambitious [[drama]]-[[documentary]]-[[animation]] [[hybrid]] stars [[Pete Postlethwaite]] as an old man living in the devastated world of [[2055]], watching "[[archive]]" [[footage]] from the present day and asking: why didn't we stop [[climate change]] while we still had the chance? The action weaves together six real human stories from around the world and examines the stark questions facing us all. |
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Jeh is an [http://www.goair.in/ airline owner in India] whose aim is to move even the poorest of his countrymen from the trains to the skies. After all, why shouldn't Indians consume like Europeans? But can economics expand indefinitely? And how much [[CO2]] does each flight emit? |
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Layefa, a Nigerian trainee doctor living in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta Africa's richest oil region], sees many children dying from lack of clean water. Does [[oil extraction]] have to cause so much suffering? Where did all the oil money go? |
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Al the [[Hurricane Katrina]] hero is a [[paleontologist]] who thinks the devastation caused in his home city of [[New Orleans]] is just a taste of what is to come if we continue to "burn up" our most valuable resource. Would an intelligent species destroy its only home? Does [[global warming]] increase the ferocity of [[hurricanes]]? |
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Fernand is an 82-year old mountain guide from the [[French Alps]] who has seen his beloved [[glaciers]] melt by more than 150 metres over his long lifetime. 3000 lorries "taking French potatoes to Italy and bringing them back as mash" drive past his house every day. Does more consumption increase happiness? |
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Jamila and Adnan were only 5 and 6 when their father was killed and their home destroyed by a missile on the second day of the [[Iraq war]]. Now refugees in [[Jordan]], they make a living on the streets selling second-hand American shoes. Is the war in Iraq about oil? Are cheap holidays really more valuable than human life? Where will hundreds of millions of climate change refugees go? |
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Piers from Cornwall thinks [[wind turbines]] are "the foot soldiers, the pioneers" of a more intelligent energy system based on massively reducing [[energy consumption]]. However, his plans for a [[wind farm]] have been repeatedly blocked by his neighbours who have no intention of letting him spoil their views. But does enough oil remain to build a new society to run without it once supplies have been used up? |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.crudemovie.net Official film website] |
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* [http://www.myspace.com/crudemovie The Age of Stupid on Myspace] |
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* {{imdb title|id=xxxxxxx|title=Age of Stupid, The (2008)}} |
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*[http://www.crudemovie.net/pathauto/franny_armstrong Franny's page on the making of The Age of Stupid, 2008] |
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*[http://undercurrentsvideo.blogspot.com/2008/02/age-of-stupid.html Undercurrents Alternative News "Preview Screening to raise final cash for The Age of Stupid", 14.02.2008] |
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*[http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/film_tv/petes+green+documentary/1580147 The Age of Stupid on Channel 4 News, 17.02.2008] |
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*[http://www.oneclimate.net/2008/02/18/the-age-of-stupid/ One Climate.net article about The Age of Stupid, 18.02.2008] |
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*[http://www.slnn.com/index.php?SCREEN=article&about=age-of-stupid-screening Second Life News feature about The Age of Stupid, 25.02.2008] |
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==See also== |
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth An Inconvenient Truth] (2006)- [[Al Gore]]'s take on climate change |
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*[http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine The Denial Machine] (2006) - [[CBC Television]] Canadian documentary about the potential costs of climate change |
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_11th_Hour_%28film%29 The 11th Hour] (2007) - [[Leonardo di Caprio]]'s film about climate change |
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*[http://www.everythingscool.org Everything's Cool] (2007) - a study of the artificial political debate about climate change created and funded by the oil and coal industries |
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*[http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3324629 Arctic Tale] (2007) - Starbucks-sponsored climate change film narrated by [[Queen Latifah]] |
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*[[The Great Global Warming Swindle]] (2007) - an opposing view from [[Martin Durkin (television director)]] |
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==Further Reading== |
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*[http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385662215 Heat] by [[George Monbiot]] - how climate change can be stopped |
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*[http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=1417 Capitalism as if the World Matters] by [[Jonathon Porritt]] - a new type of capitalism to save the world from environmental catastrophe |
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*[http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/online-shop/index.html?action=catalogue&category=books&sub_category=books Change the World for a Fiver] from [[We Are What We Do]] - 50 world-changing actions |
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*[http://www.buzzflash.com/reviews/06/03/rev06036.html Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change] by [[Elizabeth Kolbert]] - based on her extremely readable series in [[The New Yorker]] |
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*[http://www.eugenelinden.com/winds-of-change.html The Winds of Change] by [[Eugene Linden]] - climate change is a 'serial killer' that has contributed to the deaths of many civilisations |
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*[http://www.theweathermakers.org/weathermakers/index.php#praise The Weather Makers: The History & Impact of Climate Change] by [[Tim Flannery]] - what each of us can do to avoid catastrophe |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Age of Stupid, The}} |
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[[Category:Environmental films]] |
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[[Category:2008 films]] |
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[[Category:UK documentary films]] |
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[[Category:Action on climate change]] |
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[[Category:English-language films]] |
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