What Netflix's Don't Look Up tells us about the climate crisis

Director Adam McKay has made it quite clear that Don’t Look Up is about the climate crisis. How do we get people to realise this is a clear and present danger?”Of course, Don’t Look Up is an allegory, and not actually about climate, nor does it even mention it. The movie’s “impact deniers”, with their slogan “don’t look up”, made me think as much of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers as climate-change deniers. Don’t go to this film if you’re looking for a handbook to the climate crisis or how to solve it. Don’t Look Up is one attempt to tell the climate story in a way that galvanises us.