Refinement of idea #33, āA fund for movies and documentariesā:
Iād like to see filmmakers (including screenwriters and directors) working on EA-inspired films collaborate with social scientists and other subject-matter experts to ensure that their films realistically depict EA issues (such as x-risks) and social dynamics. These collaborations can help filmmakers avoid pitfalls like those committed by Donāt Look Up and The Ministry for the Future.[1]
From this review: āBut while here and there an offhand reference to some reluctant group or other is made, they are, in Ministry, always feckless. The initial disaster undermines Indiaās Hindu nationalist party, rather than strengthening it. Further disasters are met with turns to socialism. The anti-fossil fuel terrorism that is portrayed (and both criticized and seen as necessary by varying characters) does not provoke anti-environmental terrorism in response. One particular striking example is about two-thirds of the way through the novel, when a small American town is evacuated in the name of half-Earth. While not welcomed, this evacuation is accepted in a way that is all but impossible to imagine, at least while we, looking up from Robinsonās pages, see violent resistance to medical masks in a pandemic, and a political movement burning with fury at the slightest gestures of perceived disrespect. The rural fury at urban technocrats not ignored, but it is toned down beyond any realistic hopes, lessened to an almost unimaginable degree.ā
Refinement of idea #33, āA fund for movies and documentariesā:
Iād like to see filmmakers (including screenwriters and directors) working on EA-inspired films collaborate with social scientists and other subject-matter experts to ensure that their films realistically depict EA issues (such as x-risks) and social dynamics. These collaborations can help filmmakers avoid pitfalls like those committed by Donāt Look Up and The Ministry for the Future.[1]
From this review: āBut while here and there an offhand reference to some reluctant group or other is made, they are, in Ministry, always feckless. The initial disaster undermines Indiaās Hindu nationalist party, rather than strengthening it. Further disasters are met with turns to socialism. The anti-fossil fuel terrorism that is portrayed (and both criticized and seen as necessary by varying characters) does not provoke anti-environmental terrorism in response. One particular striking example is about two-thirds of the way through the novel, when a small American town is evacuated in the name of half-Earth. While not welcomed, this evacuation is accepted in a way that is all but impossible to imagine, at least while we, looking up from Robinsonās pages, see violent resistance to medical masks in a pandemic, and a political movement burning with fury at the slightest gestures of perceived disrespect. The rural fury at urban technocrats not ignored, but it is toned down beyond any realistic hopes, lessened to an almost unimaginable degree.ā