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Don’t Look Up Doesn’t Get the Climate Crisis
Nevertheless, Don’t Look Up badly misconstrues the crisis it’s meant to illuminate.
Yet Don’t Look Up is itself a transparent product of its authors’ immersion in social-media echo chambers.
But this quickly prompts a “Don’t look up” countermovement from the president’s supporters.
Most of Don’t Look Up’s deficiencies as a climate parable derive from a simple fact: Climate change isn’t really analogous to a planet-killer comet.
Late in Don’t Look Up, Dibiasky returns to her blue-collar hometown, where her parents promptly condemn her politics.