I'm a climate scientist.
Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
T
he movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen.
… astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her PhD adviser, Dr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio)... discover a comet – a “planet killer” – that will impact the Earth in just over six months. The certainty of impact is 99.7%...
The panic and desperation they feel mirror the panic and desperation that many climate scientists feel.
In one scene, Mindy hyperventilates in a bathroom; in another, Diabasky, on national TV, screams
“Are we not being clear? We’re all 100% for sure gonna fucking die!”
I can relate. This is what it feels like to be a climate scientist today...
