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'The Age of Stupid' will make a global splash on Sept. 21, launching in America from a solar-powered cinema tent in New York and being shown at more than 400 movie theaters across the United States.
In some ways, however, we're already living in it.
The independent, quasi-documentary is kind of like "An Inconvenient Truth" set in the future.
Oscar-nominee Pete Postlethwaite is living alone in a devastated world, in 2055.
He looks back on the year 2008 and wonders why the world didn't do more to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
One of those featured in the trailer is Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, a global warming activist who contributed the title track to the film.
The Age of Stupid USA Trailer from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
Yorke will play an acoustic version of the song at the opening, and the performance will be shown live via satellite in participating theaters.
Yorke called himself "a climate optimist" in a 2008 story in The Guardian.
"With Radiohead, the most shocking yet obvious thing we discovered was that the way people travel to our shows has the biggest impact," he wrote.
"So we now play in venues that are supported by public transport. We have a new lighting rig that is, hopefully, powered by super-efficient generators, and we've made deals with trucking companies to cut their emissions.
These changes might be small, but they are in the right direction. Unlike pessimists such as James Lovelock, I don't believe we are all doomed."
This film offers people more than a little time away from home. The producers want folks to take action, by protesting, cutting emissions or just spreading the word.
Here's an idea: Take a skeptic to the movies. Engage them in a debate about climate change.
When they say it's fake, show them this page, the Kid's Page, from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Or this page from the filmmakersHow to Talk to a Climate Skeptic.
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