When people look back at our massive waste and heavy consumerism they will call this The Age of Ignorance.. The Age of Stupid. The movie is set in 2055 at the top of a tower in the middle of the arctic. This tower holds all the contents from every museum in the world, a copy of every book and poem ever written and 2 of each animal. The tower is also home to Pete Postlewaite’s character who is looking back over news footage from the early 2000s, back when it all went wrong.
All the current and past footage from the film is real, the only actor in the film is Pete Postlewaite. The movie skips between different stories, each one showing the real life impact of the oil wars and “climate chaos”. It also shows anticipated footage of earth as it will be if we continue to live beyond our environmental and climatic means. We see deserts expanding by an astounding 3 miles per year, glaciers in the French Alps melting at a rate of 100-150 meters per annum, and spring and autumn disappearing in these places as it fast becomes a climate of two seasons.
Oil is running out. We don’t have enough to sustain our lifestyle for much longer, probably about another 40 years. We need to look at alternative renewable energy sources such as the wind and the sun. Yet there are anti lobby groups in existence that fight the building of wind farms. That’s the point of this film, to educate. To teach that the beauty in a wind farm is not in it’s aesthetic value but in it’s power to produce necessary, alternative energy.
Everybody should see this film, it might just be scary enough to make a difference.
The Age of Stupid was shown in Solstice Arts Centre by Meath Climate Change Group.
