What “Don’t Look Up” gets right—and wrong—about climate change

But if climate change were plainly visible, and literally hurtling toward the planet, could society rise to the challenge? Here’s what Don’t Look Up gets right, and wrong, about climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released in August was unequivocal on that point, with 4,000 pages of evidence to back it up. But the deeper flaw in the comet metaphor is that technology, existing or not, is only part of what’s needed to address climate change. Climate change clearly requires more global buy-in; again, it can only be addressed through collective action.