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00:00There's 100% certainty of impact.
00:02Can we just call it a potentially significant event?
00:05The message of Don't Look Up is encapsulated in the final line,
00:09uttered by Leonardo DiCaprio's doomed scientist Dr. Mindy,
00:13moments before human life on Earth is extinguished by a deadly comet.
00:17We really did have everything, didn't we?
00:19The story about a society that doesn't bother to save itself
00:22from impending doom is an allegory for climate catastrophe,
00:26and why, for some reason, we're not doing what we need to do to ensure our species survival.
00:31I just love the way that he ended this film,
00:33because it makes us take a hard look at where we're ultimately going.
00:37In the film, a deadly comet which will end humanity as we know it
00:41is on a collision course with Earth,
00:42but the powers that be ignore scientific data in favor of big business and tech.
00:47Instead of destroying or diverting the comet to save humankind,
00:51they see the comet as a potential resource for enrichment and mine it for capital.
00:55before only half-heartedly trying to save the planet as an afterthought.
00:59It's a level of willful inaction and a focus on short-term material gain
01:03that's actually insane, because what does it matter how rich you are if you're dead?
01:08What do these trillions of dollars even matter if we're all gonna die
01:11from the impact of this comet?
01:13But it's also an eerily accurate echo of how we continue to mine our world
01:17for non-renewable resources instead of investing in green energy,
01:21even though burning fossil fuels is explicitly causing our downfall.
01:25The world's gonna end and no one's taking it seriously.
01:27Everyone's talking about other news stories.
01:28That's reality. That's what's actually happening.
01:30Do you want to talk about the movie?
01:32It became less and less like a satire and more and more like a documentary.
01:36In the almost mundane conversation at The Last Supper,
01:39before Dr. Mindy says his final line,
01:41which director Adam McKay said DiCaprio came up with himself,
01:45the focus isn't on the fruits of extreme wealth,
01:47but on the amazing luxury and wonder most of us take for granted every day.
01:51This coffee doesn't taste store-bought, is it?
01:55I grind my own beans, yeah.
01:58Yeah, that's kind of a coffee nut.
01:59Don't Look Up is trying to remind us that we already have everything, too.
02:03We've been born on a planet that's truly paradise,
02:06full of gifts far more priceless than anything money can buy.
02:09Here's our take on Don't Look Up's deeper message about how rich we already are,
02:14and whether we can snap out of our current failure to stave off total climate catastrophe.
02:19Are we not being clear?
02:22We're trying to tell you that the entire planet is about to be destroyed.
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02:38The central evils of the film, which lead people to making these choices
02:48that harm the planet, are money and power—
02:50two forces that today intersect more than ever.
02:52The threat in Don't Look Up may be a comet,
02:55but the ultimate planet killer is tech billionaire Peter Isherwell.
02:59CEO of Bash, and the third richest human ever.
03:03He's the guy that bought the Gutenberg Bible and lost it.
03:07The already obscenely rich CEO of a fictional company called Bash
03:11pressures the US government to preserve the comet's mineral rights
03:14so that his company can become richer.
03:16This comet hurtling towards us from deep space
03:20actually contains at least 32 trillion dollars of these critical materials.
03:26The evil tech mogul figure is fast becoming a stock film and TV trope,
03:31just as popular narratives of many real-life tech CEOs have shifted fairly suddenly from hero,
03:36two villain narratives.
03:38And it's true that real-life tech CEOs have weaponized the climate crisis
03:42to position themselves as potential saviors with large pledges.
03:45And since we know that long-term we're going to have to have
03:49renewable energy anyway, it's really just a question of
03:51do we try to get there sooner or later?
03:54And we should try to get there sooner.
03:55Even though it's the wealthy elite and the biggest companies
03:58who contribute the most to climate change,
04:00Don't Look Up's choice to make Isherwell both the enemy,
04:03and the one truly calling the shots,
04:05underlines how the power of tech billionaires is out of hand.
04:08In past stories about possible apocalyptic events facing the planet,
04:12government leaders would often make the crucial decisions.
04:14But here, the people we think of as holding the most power
04:17are really just puppets in Isherwell's pocket.
04:20Madam President, may I have a word with you outside for a moment, please?
04:24Janie!
04:25No!
04:25I'm so sorry.
04:26The film ultimately paints the portrait of a world where money is power.
04:30Money wins.
04:31And the film makes clear that when the person who holds the most power
04:34is the person who owns the most capital,
04:36this is incredibly dangerous.
04:38Isherwell is allowed to take complete control of the mission to save the Earth,
04:41and whether or not his ideas are completely terrible,
04:44which they kind of are,
04:45his interests are completely self-serving,
04:48and there's no reason to trust either his commitment
04:50or his ability to come through,
04:52because he's not being held accountable in any way.
04:54Has any of this been peer reviewed?
04:56No.
04:58Without having to be tested and proven in any way,
05:01Isherwell's technology fails at the crucial moment,
05:03leaving humanity, which has put all its eggs into tech's basket, to die.
05:07I've got four misfires and the sink was off.
05:10It's a chilling warning that we are giving too much power and trust
05:14into the hands of tech behemoths,
05:15without insisting on any meaningful systems of accountability
05:18or checks on that power.
05:20Even if we're not consciously or explicitly making these billionaires our leaders,
05:24it's the de facto result of letting them become so much obscenely richer
05:28than everyone else, in a world where, as we saw, capital is power.
05:31When it comes to the climate crisis too,
05:33many people hope for technological solutions that will save us from disaster,
05:38but like counting on Isherwell in this story,
05:40this is a huge gamble and distraction.
05:42By not acting just like the people in Don't Look Up,
05:45we're increasingly backing ourselves into a corner where we count on an elaborate,
05:49unlikely wildcard tech solution,
05:51which is probably the same as signing our own death warrants.
05:54That Isherwell's final proposal is to start a new life on a distant planet
05:58is a direct shot at the space exploration being pioneered by Musk,
06:02Bezos and Richard Branson, ventures which come with significant carbon emissions,
06:06and which seem focused on imagining a life beyond Earth,
06:09instead of properly trying to save this one.
06:12And the long-term, probably survival of humanity and life as we know it,
06:16we must become a multi-funded species.
06:18The movie even suggests it's possible Isherwell had no intention
06:21of ever stopping the comet at all,
06:23and his plan has always just been using his obscene wealth
06:26to save this small cohort of rich people who will settle on a distant planet.
06:30There's a ship.
06:32In case we were wrong, and clearly we were wrong.
06:36Of course you've got a ship.
06:39This too echoes how some powerful people who aren't concerned about climate change
06:43simply believe that by enriching themselves enough,
06:45they can ensure that they and their loved ones will be protected.
06:48In the movie's epilogue, though, Don't Look Up tries to get across
06:51how delusional this belief really is.
06:54Isherwell's resettlement plan ends in disaster almost as soon as they arrive.
06:58What is that thing?
07:00I believe that's called a Brontorock.
07:02Whatever you do, don't pet them!
07:05Underlining that as cool as it may sound,
07:07any form of outer space relocation is a huge, long shot,
07:10far more elaborate, difficult, expensive, and risky than simply making it work here.
07:16Don't Look Up makes us think about what to do with the time we have on this earth.
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08:22We're often told that solving the climate crisis starts
08:25from electing the right people into power,
08:27but the film suggests that it's not so simple,
08:29because here, all the people who we think of as possessing power
08:32really are cogs, trapped by the hyper-capitalist system.
08:36Meryl Streep's President Orlean is a Donald Trump cipher,
08:39whose decisions are all motivated by keeping the power she's got,
08:42which is what makes her defer to donor Isherwell.
08:45Is he allowed to be in here?
08:46Yeah, he's a platinum eagle-level donor to the campaign,
08:48so he has full clearance.
08:50The first person to call Dr. Mindy and Kate DiBiaski's findings
08:53into question is the head of NASA,
08:55who's really a super-rich, underqualified supporter of the president,
08:58and effectively used her massive wealth to buy an important job.
09:02Yeah, she's the head of NASA, but look,
09:04she's a former anesthesiologist and a President Orlean super donor.
09:08When Dr. Mindy and Kate are trying to get the word out,
09:10they go to the press.
09:11But even in the supposedly dispassionate,
09:13fact-based arena of journalism,
09:15their message can't cut through the guiding principle of entertainment,
09:19seeking views for profit.
09:20Okay, well, as it's damaging,
09:22will it hit this one house in particular
09:23that's right on the coast of New Jersey,
09:25it's my ex-wife's house, I need it to be hit?
09:27There's something we do around here, you know,
09:28we just keep the bad news light.
09:30When their grim assertions clash with the lighthearted tone
09:33of the morning show they're invited on,
09:34Kate's turned into a meme,
09:36and their news is overshadowed by celebrity gossip.
09:39A more serious article written for the New York Herald
09:41is buried by the editors when it's clear that nobody is reading it.
09:44We did not feature or push on any sites,
09:47and clicks overall were below basic weather and traffic stories.
09:51This whole media structure, and everyone in this society,
09:54is allowing themselves to be controlled by this wheel,
09:57pursuing money without questioning if this larger system is truly working.
10:01When anyone tries to speak truth that challenges this system,
10:04they're either targeted for seduction by power and capital,
10:07like Dr. Mindy, or discarded and mocked, like Kate.
10:10Dr. Mindy can be absorbed into this system as a Dr. Fauci-like figure,
10:14who somewhat moderately tries to spread nuggets of truth,
10:17but in gentle enough terms that he makes people feel comfortable.
10:20Sure, the jobs the comet's going to create sound great.
10:23What if it's not safe?
10:25Right now, millions of you are having these same doubts and questions.
10:29DiCaprio likens his character to climate scientists
10:32trying to play within the system.
10:33Meanwhile, Jennifer Lawrence's Kate,
10:35the grad student who discovers the comet
10:37and won't be dissuaded from actually telling the uncomfortable truth,
10:40becomes a kind of Greta Thunberg-type underground hero to young people.
10:44Holy shit, you're a stone-cold legend.
10:46I got a picture of you on my board.
10:47A picture on his f***ing board.
10:49But where Thunberg has become an important voice
10:51in the climate crisis,
10:52the mainstream just treats Kate as a figure of ridicule.
10:55We're all gonna die.
10:58F*** off, please.
10:59Framing her as the hysterical woman,
11:01in contrast to Mindy's assumed likability
11:04due to his simply being a semi-attractive, polite white guy.
11:07Ultimately, Don't Look Up captures that this entire machine
11:10governing our society, from the chat show hosts beholden to views,
11:13to the politicians beholden to midterms,
11:16to the tech billionaires and all the rest of us beholden to capital,
11:19is operating on autopilot.
11:20It feels like no one can really stop it,
11:22but if we don't, it's going to kill us.
11:30In addition to showing how powerful people are failing our planet,
11:33the film also shows how many ordinary people would rather bury their heads in the sand
11:37than confront a painful reality.
11:38Your dad and I are for the jobs the comet will provide.
11:41The plot around the comet demonstrates how in our contentious world,
11:44facts that are simply accurate inevitably become politicized and manipulated.
11:49The obfuscation is an intentional way to control the population.
11:52And do you know why they want you to look up?
11:55Because they want you to be afraid.
11:58The film's title is revealed to be a campaign slogan for President Orlean,
12:01as she tries to convince people that everything is under control,
12:04a counter-message to the viral Just Look Up movement,
12:07inspired by Dr. Mindy's and Kate's attempts to get the basic truth out.
12:11Look up into the sky!
12:13It's a f***ing fact.
12:14We have truth.
12:15Just look up!
12:16Guys, please just look up.
12:17But by choosing Don't Look Up as its title,
12:19the film underlines how many of us on some level partake in the dangerous
12:23popular mentality of ignoring the urgent existential problem in front of us,
12:27because surely someone else with more power will fix it.
12:30As we've seen though, that someone else can't be trusted to do so,
12:34and the polarization of popular opinion in itself is a useful distraction
12:38for capital-seeking forces.
12:40For decades, climate change deniers and propaganda funded by the fossil fuel
12:44industries have crippled efforts to stop global warming
12:46by stalling the conversation on establishing that climate change is even happening.
12:51We're hearing that there is no comet, or that there is a comet,
12:56but it's a good thing, or maybe it's a bad thing.
12:58We are so confused.
13:00Likewise, the film contains striking parallels with how the role of science,
13:04has been dangerously politicized during the global COVID-19 pandemic,
13:08thus hampering public health efforts to vaccinate and protect the public.
13:11While Don't Look Up is intended as a climate analogy,
13:14in some ways a deadly unexpected comet in the sky aligns more with the pandemic.
13:19And even though many have called the pandemic a hoax,
13:22it's harder to continue to deny when naysayers eventually find themselves
13:26or loved ones landed in the hospital.
13:28After Don't Look Up's production was halted because of COVID,
13:30director Adam McKay said that how people reacted to the pandemic meant the script had to become
13:3520% crazier because reality had played out crazier.
13:38The film has achieved particular notoriety in Brazil,
13:41where President Bolsonaro quickly downplayed the severity of the pandemic,
13:45and scientist Natalia Pasternak, when explaining the crisis on national TV,
13:49found herself playing a role much like Kate DiBiasky's.
13:52The plot captures how when this atmosphere of division is created,
14:01we become entrenched in our own viewpoints,
14:04trying to just be right instead of truly convincing the other side
14:08or making any larger progress.
14:09While President Orlean is holding Trump-style Don't Look Up rallies,
14:13extolling the virtues of ignorance and ignoring the facts,
14:16the Just Look Up movement is doing something almost as unhelpful
14:19by hosting a glitzy pop concert at London's Wembley Stadium,
14:23distilling their message into an Ariana Grande as Riley Bina pop song,
14:27which really doesn't say much at all.
14:29The film cuts between these two events,
14:31the similarities becoming clearer, each is playing to their base,
14:35and turning this serious situation into a culture war.
14:38The end result is that people may feel defending their side is enough,
14:42and switch off from what's really required for the larger effort.
14:45I think we're all tired of the politics.
14:47The liberals attending the Riley Bina event may feel they're on the right side,
14:51and at least acknowledge the truth,
14:53but they're not making any substantive change to their capital-driven,
14:56comfortable status quo,
14:58so none of this is really going to stop the comet or climate change.
15:01And despite President Orlean's Trumpian nature,
15:03she's also the first woman president,
15:05with pictures and portraits of a mix of conservative and liberal icons in her office.
15:09So this deliberate vagueness sends the message that the liberal establishment
15:13may not be as meaningfully far apart from the conservative establishment as we think.
15:17Meanwhile, the story reflects the risks of the apathy and nihilistic despair
15:22that's plaguing younger generations,
15:24as represented by Timothee Chalamet's character
15:26and his group of friends that Kate falls in with.
15:28This slacker, hipster group has its own form of conspiracy theory mindset,
15:33which exaggerates the devious intelligence of people in power.
15:36Batch got Orlean to pay the Chilean government—I'm correct—90 billion dollars
15:44to let the tsunamis hit off the coast of that country.
15:46Is that something right to you?
15:47Guys, the truth is way more depressing.
15:51They're not even smart enough to be as evil as you're giving them credit for.
15:55But most worryingly, they're processing these events
15:57with ironic detachment and cynical hopelessness,
16:00because they believe they've been born into a losing battle.
16:02You don't give a shit, do you?
16:04We don't give a shit either.
16:06Perhaps most chilling is watching Kate,
16:08as someone who 100% knows what's happening but is powerless to stop it,
16:12contend with what it is to live our final moments totally without hope.
16:16And this raises a truly tragic worst-case scenario we have to consider.
16:20What if we really don't solve this problem,
16:22and are left to simply decide what to do
16:24with the relatively short time that's left to us?
16:26F*** it, we're all gonna die.
16:28The fact that our missions are still going up worldwide,
16:37and we're not making the changes necessary.
16:40Climate scientist Peter Kalmas wrote in The Guardian that
16:42Don't Look Up is the most accurate film about society's terrifying
16:46non-response to climate breakdown I've seen.
16:48DiCaprio, who's long been an environmental activist,
16:51has said his passion for the cause motivated him to make this movie.
16:54As DiCaprio points out, and Don't Look Up contends with,
16:57it's surprisingly difficult to make media about climate change today
17:01that people will pay attention to.
17:02Much like the inundation of news on climate change,
17:06a lot of people don't want to hear it.
17:08This isn't just due to people who are in denial.
17:10Many of those who do take climate change seriously
17:12are feeling so overwhelmed and hopeless that they have the instinct
17:15to shut off from the onslaught of bad news.
17:18Don't Look Up thus attempts to reach us through comedy,
17:20featuring the enjoyment and escapism of likable movie stars.
17:24It employs an analogy which may give us another level
17:27on which to engage intellectually with the problem.
17:29Plus, it includes a level of urgent apocalyptic warning
17:32to shock us into facing just how dire this situation is.
17:36And you should stay up all night, every night, crying,
17:40when we're all 100% for sure gonna die!
17:44It's an approach that's worked, at least to reach audiences.
17:47Netflix reported that the film broke its record
17:49for most hours watched in a single week.
17:51Whether you think it succeeded artistically,
17:53or didn't nail its execution,
17:55Don't Look Up has engendered significant discourse
17:58since its release.
17:58Even some of its detractors have said it's important to watch.
18:01Still, some have critiqued whether Don't Look Up is guilty
18:04of doing one of the things it criticizes,
18:06packaging up a serious issue for entertainment purposes.
18:08I mean, that's why we made Total Devastation.
18:10It's for everyone.
18:11You know, it's a popcorn movie.
18:14At a point when, as the film itself tells us,
18:16awareness and conversation just aren't enough.
18:18Does it simply preach to the converted,
18:20and haven't we been here quite a few times before?
18:23Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006,
18:26winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary,
18:28breaking box office records,
18:29and pushing climate change into the popular discourse.
18:32Each one of us is a cause of global warming,
18:35but each of us can make choices to change that.
18:37But 15 years down the line, and we are where we are.
18:41Critics have also noted that not every aspect of the analogy quite works.
18:44While the film spotlights how big tech has exploited the climate crisis,
18:48the central analogy of a random comet erases how big industry is also guilty
18:52for creating the climate change problem in the first place.
18:55And since about 85% of the carbon dioxide we currently emit
18:59comes from fossil fuels and industry,
19:01we need to stop fossil fuels from causing further global warming.
19:05The way the film lumps in both political sides as part of the problem
19:08also risks suggesting it really doesn't matter that Trump-like forces
19:12engage in total obfuscation of the truth, ethics, or democratic values.
19:16Perhaps the most striking difference between climate change
19:18and the comet analogy is that Don't Look Up's simple,
19:21fast-moving, and visible threat would be in some ways easier to fight
19:25within the constraints of our economic, socio-political machine.
19:28As Calmless writes,
19:29climate scientists have faced an even more insurmountable
19:32public communication task than the astronomers in Don't Look Up
19:35since climate destruction unfolds over decades,
19:38lightning fast as far as the planet is concerned,
19:40but glacially slow as far as the news cycle is concerned,
19:43and isn't as immediate and visible as a comet in the sky.
19:47This film about why we should listen to scientists
19:49actually centers its final moments on religion.
19:52We ask for your grace tonight, despite our pride.
19:56Science and religion are often framed as opposing in today's discourse,
19:59but are they?
20:00True religiosity is grounded in humility and gratitude
20:03for the enormous gifts that this life grants us,
20:06and true respect for science is about doing that creation
20:08the honor of respecting the truth, making the hard, rational choices
20:12that are required of us to preserve what matters most.
20:15In Don't Look Up's quiet yet climactic Last Supper scene,
20:18we get a glimpse of how both are crucial to at last
20:21pull together in saving our people.
20:24Sometimes we need to just be able to say things to one another,
20:28we need to hear things.
20:30This is The Take on your favorite movie shows and pop culture.
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