'The Age of Stupid' is a drama-documentary film which is set in a post-apocalyptic future and poses the question 'why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?'.
Although it includes some dramatised scenes, it mainly features documentary strands that follow people such as the businessman behind low-cost Indian airline 'GoAir', a New Orleans man during Hurricane Katrina who works in the oil industry and a wind-farm developer called Piers who sees his plans for sustainable energy blocked.
Several points of the film stood out, such as:
- the extent of glacial erosion on Mont Blanc, 150m in 50 years(?)
- around 60% of the public have doubts over human effects on climate change, whereas less than 1% of scientists harbour doubts
- Americans, Australians and Canadians consume 3x more resources than Europeans and Japanese
- to minimise climate change effects the temperature must stabilise at just 2 degrees over pre-industrial levels but a change of 6 degrees would be disastrous
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