Climate porn and snow at Sundance:
"This year’s Sundance film festival is all-in on climate.
What better way to trigger the
“Gore effect?”
As often happens when Gore hypes the climate, festival-goers in Park City Utah are freezing their warming off.
“What else could go wrong?” asked festival director John Cooper.
What’s gone “wrong”?
Well,
Trump Trump Trump, a cyber attack, power outages, public complaint about internet access, freeway shut downs, traffic gridlock due to too many SUVs, busses, delivery trucks and snow plows, festival banners blowing off and down Main Street, and a big chunky snowstorm with bouts of full on blizzard and temperature in the single digits.
Minus three is forecast for Thursday.
The snow and freezing weather has attendees bundled up in fur coats, goose down stuffed Patagonia jackets, slick leather jackets and big furry snow boots — all the comforts an energy rich, free market society can provide.
Al Gore made a personal appearance at the premiere of his
“An Inconvenient Sequel,” and told us, “we are putting 110 million tonnes of global warming pollution [CO2] in the atmosphere every 24 hours.”
Gore proclaimed “the sustainability movement is unstoppable.”
The audience of over 1000 clapped and cheered with enthusiasm, not pausing to consider what life might be like without the energy and prosperity they take for granted.
Sundance’s “New Climate” line up is relentless in targeting American freedom as the source of the world’s problems.
Capitalism is bad, CO2 is bad, cars are bad, consumerism is bad, unrepentant white people are bad, cattle are bad, and the list goes on.
...
The climate porn at Sundance moved beyond the figurative to the literal with the inclusion of the short film Hot Winter, a parody of the campy porn films of the eighties.
“One of the first films in American cinema to address climate change,” the joke goes, the film was also a “hardcore porno.”
For the Festival, “all sex scenes have been removed as to not distract from the conscious message.” We follow “Dr. Manly,” the world’s most renowned climate scientist, body builder, and former actor, as he eventually falls for the much hated Oil, Corporation’s president, Ms. Frost.
Everything leads back to global warming and at the end of the film we are told that “global warming is real” and the way to save the earth is by using renewable energy.
Are the film’s producers parodying eighties porn or the warming campaign itself?
Do you they even know?..."
