Post-Apocalyptic Video Opens Climate-Change Conference (video at link:)

[The Straight Story]

Post-Apocalyptic Video Opens Climate-Change Conference

A short film showing a post-apocalyptic nightmare scenario in which not even teddy bears are safe opened the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Monday.

The film, called “Please Help the World” (embedded above), shows a young girl dreaming of a world torn apart by an environment gone haywire. In a series of scenes that could have appeared in disaster porn movie 2012, parched earth cracks and splits, swallowing up the doomed stuffed animal. Then black clouds form into a gigantic tornado that bears down on a distant city, and ferocious seas pour over the land, forcing the girl into a lonely tree, where she hangs, desperate and screaming.

After the screaming, she awakes, terrified, and some educational web surfing ensues, set to a dramatic orchestral soundtrack (as is, presumably, most of educational web surfing). Then the girl runs to the rooftop, sets up her video camera, and delivers the short film’s message: “Please help the world.”

“We have made a film which speaks to the heart rather than to the brain,” says Danish director Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen of his short on the COP15 website. “I hope that the film can affect politicians in a positive way, so that they may raise their goals a little higher, because their emotions have been touched.”

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/12/post-apocalyptic-video-opens-climate-change-conference/

[berni_mccoy]

1. Wow.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. I caught a clip of this on NPR this morning.

The sentiment's in the right place, but it sounded (the audio at least) really cheesy.

[JonQ]

3. So they believe CO2 will do all that

but they still won't give up their private jets and subject themselves to a carpool?

Seems like they're evil then.

[Hannah Bell]

4. yep. which pretty much demonstrates the point is for the little people to bear the burden, not the

big shots.

fuck em.

[The Straight Story]

5. Sacrifice is for the poor and the troops

When the rich create pollution it is for the benefit of us all...

[JonQ]

7. But did you watch the video?

Global warming ate her teddy bear.

The debate is over. We all need to sacrifice now to save that girls toy (except the elites, they deserve a little something for bringing this to our attentions).

[The Straight Story]

8. I believe there are problems/issues we need to address

I don't always with agree with the how/why in it all.

If I had a tinfoil hat on I might speculate that there is something else behind it all - something many suspected in the early 80's and were laughed at for thinking so.

For now, maybe, I will trust the rich and powerful are just working to save me from you.... ;)

[Uncle Joe]

6. Well done, kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, The Straight Story.:thumbsup: