Almost 10 years ago this important film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, came into the theatres, and then home video, and left, and was largely ignored. Ten years before that the same thing happened to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
Basically, nothing happened. Now we have a "president" (and I put that in quotation marks because he is not behaving like a president, rather, he fancies himself a dictator.)......... who calls climate change "a Chinese hoax", and gleefully tells his billionaire supporters to "drill, drill, drill" while he, and they, willfully ignore the endangerment of the future for money. If that isn't a deeply moral issue, I don't what is.
I don't know what to write about in this blog these days, because, as an American, our country is in chaos, and as someone who cares about the environment, about Gaia..... I have a great deal of anger, and grief, and often feelings of helplessness in the face of the ignorance and greed that ignores, indeed, ridicules the profoundly important message in this film.
This post, with this film, was a draft from 2022. Even I turned away from putting the links to it on my Blog. It's time I share them, time I myself look at this film, and Al Gore's film, again. Because it's important to know the truth, even if it's inconvenient.
Before the Flood (Trailer)
2016
From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, BEFORE THE FLOOD presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change.
BEFORE THE FLOOD aired in theaters, and globally on the National Geographic Channel, in 2016.
I know exactly what you mean, Lauren . My posts since the election have been almost exclusively about politics. About how dictatorship is here.
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