Understanding The Complex Crisis Of Climate Change in a Simple Way
The links between the many factors that have led to the current critical situation
When the cataclysmic movies “The Day After Tomorrow” and then “2012” came out, I was very skeptical (to say the least) about the end-of-the-world theories depicted on the big screen.
Yes, I’d seen Al Gore presenting the “Inconvenient Truth” and can’t deny the man had a convincing storyline. But living in Patagonia, where everything seemed to live in perpetual magnificence, it was hard to connect in the long term. It soon felt like a foggy theory of some angry man who lost the elections against another angry man who decided to destroy another angry country.
Then, “Interstellar” hit theaters. And heck, that was different.
I re-watched my favorite Pixar movie, “Wall-E”, through a new lens. The silent robot now seemed to scream, “Open your eyes, people! This is our future!”
Home changed too. Summers and winters turned extreme with scorching heatwaves, wildfires, and odd rain patterns.
And this year, Antarctica failed to form a piece of its ice sheet the size of my country, Argentina, the 8th largest in the world.
