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About this video essay:
A critical review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:35 Why The Big Short was great
09:03 Vice, also not bad
11:22 Don't Look Up takes a different approach
13:06 The struggle to storify climate change
14:31 Climate change as a communication problem
17:19 Why the comet just doesn't work
19:55 Simplifying the real problem
25:12 American Exceptionalism
29:07 Self-caused vs. random event
32:14 The pain of a disconnected world
39:31 Epilogue

Sources:
Bruno Latour - Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime: https://amzn.to/3o0kmLo
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World: https://amzn.to/3u1NfuA
Ulrich Beck - Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity: https://amzn.to/35fs5yA
Ulrich Beck - The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World: https://amzn.to/3Iv4to6
Madeleine Heyward - Equity and international climate change negotiations: A matter of perspective: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...


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Media included:
Don’t Look Up; The Big Short; Vice; An Inconvenient Truth 1 &2; South Park; The Day After Tomorrow

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