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Guardian: “The Day After Tomorrow” at 20 is a “Prescient Ecological Warning”
« on: June 06, 2024, 07:10:45 am »
Guardian: “The Day After Tomorrow” at 20 is a “Prescient Ecological Warning”
14 hours ago Eric Worrall 49 Comments

Essay by Eric Worrall

A compelling work of fiction which a lot of people took way too seriously is “prescient” – has the Guardian finally said something we can agree with?

The Day After Tomorrow at 20: a strangely prescient ecological warning

The disaster flick is riddled with inaccuracies, cliches and gusts of machismo. But with its global climate catastrophe, it feels more relevant than ever

Lauren Collee Wed 5 Jun 2024 01.00 AEST

In the winter of 2013, a breakdown in the polar vortex allowed freezing cold air to escape southwards towards the North American continent. As ice storms, tornadoes and blizzards swept across the US, Donald Trump tweeted. “I’m in Los Angeles and it’s freezing,” he wrote. “Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/05/guardian-the-day-after-tomorrow-at-20-is-a-prescient-ecological-warning/
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Re: Guardian: “The Day After Tomorrow” at 20 is a “Prescient Ecological Warning”
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2024, 07:13:18 am »
It certainly is!  It's a warning that if you follow the whack job, scare mongers, in another 20 years still nothing will have changed. **nononono*
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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