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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by alonmower on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:33AM (#32399370)
I feel like we need movies/media that helps things feel more real, personal, negative, close to home.

Not movies that _focus_ and sensationalize climate disasters like The Day After Tomorrow. But movies that exist in the near future where really visceral elements of how climate change played out 10-20 years exist as a backdrop to whatever story is being told (but feel grounded in reality).

e.g. water rationing, abandoned towns/cities, authoritarian responses to increased immigration/migration, food shortages, etc...

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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by throwaway_4ever on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:04PM (#32402464)
I'd say 'Don't Look Up', but on second thought, the venn diagram of climate change denialists and people who don't realize the movie's a satire about climate change is almost a circle.
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by sveme on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:12PM (#32401626)
Children of Men feels like a very realistic dystopia of the UK five years from now.
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by tremon on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:33AM (#32409559)
Children of Men doesn't specify the cause for the infertility, I think? Only some handwavy "there were some chemicals", IIRC? At least I'm pretty certain it doesn't attribute anything to climate change.
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by theriddlr on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:03AM (#32413190)
Russell T Davies's Years & Years feels like a plausible near future. Bananas are extinct, baking systems failing, refugee crises.
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by kergonath on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:58AM (#32399668)
> e.g. water rationing, abandoned towns/cities, authoritarian responses to increased immigration/migration, food shortages, etc...

More like Mad Max?

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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by alonmower on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:12PM (#32400761)
Ya the original is a good example but that's probably still too apocalyptic, one can watch that and scoff saying "it'd never get that bad".

Stuff that's more focused on the immediate, painful changes but still in line of sight from our current reality. Children of Men did a pretty good job pulling some subtle "here's how society has changed for the worse" world building in (obviously all based on it's underlying premise that no more children are being born)

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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by formerkrogemp on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:30PM (#32400987)
> More like Mad Max?

More like California, Arizona, Utah, South Africa, etc.?

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