James Lileks’ latest National Review column ponders the United Nations’ efforts to convince Hollywood to draw more attention to “the dangers of global warming.”
”Usually I speak to prime ministers and presidents, but that has its limits,” said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who arrived in Los Angeles … for a high-profile outreach effort. “Movie producers, directors, actors — they have global reach.”
Well, so do the plague and the jet stream, but that doesn’t mean we want them to tell us how to live, either. The only way you’ll get a “story line” about climate change in “social media” is if Charlie Sheen changes his tagline from “#winning” to “#warming,” and even then people will think he dropped a cigarette and set his pants on fire.
As for movies and TV: Make all your products with natural light and hand-cranked cameras. Better yet: Stop making movies. They consume tremendous amounts of resources, and we don’t mean the catering bill for a Michael Moore documentary.