The Best Movies About Climate Change
Spoiler alerts: the five best climate-change films; Hollywood – loyal to its eco-sceptic audiences in middle America – has always been frosty towards environmental movies. Here are the most prescient exceptions to the rule
19 January 2017 (UK Guardian)
“…[In Snowpiercer,] botched climate engineering has plunged the Earth into a new ice age, and the only survivors all inhabit a huge train that perpetually circumnavigates the globe…[and it] is a microcosm of 21st-century society: multicultural, but with the 1% in charge of the engine…[and content to go round in circles while the rear carriages stoke] revolution… The Day After Tomorrow] smuggles the eco-consciousness of [director Roland Emmerich’s native Germany into the heart of Hollywood… Hell…[is one of the few looks] at a hothouse Earth… Beasts of the Southern Wild suggests rising waters can be matched by] human resilience…[In Silent Running…[all] Earth’s plant life has died out…[and Interstellar is] a reminder to us all that any solution begins in the most familiar place: home.” click here for more
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