‘Don’t Look Up’ Scene Eerily Echoed in ‘Good Morning Britain’ Interview With Climate Activist (Video)
14.04.2022 - 03:27
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inadvertently recreated a scene from the 2021 film “Don’t Look Up.” On Monday’s episode of the ITV morning show, climate activist Miranda Whelehan of Just Stop Oil attempted to explain why the group has been peacefully obstructing oil terminals in Essex. However, presenter Richard Madeley repeatedly minimized her urgent message about the environmental destruction caused by oil consumption.
'I think the children and the future deserve that.''Just Stop Oil' activists protested across London this weekend to demand an end to the fossil fuel economy. Meanwhile, the cost of living crisis means many people are paying more & more for fuel.
Are oil protests justified? pic.twitter.com/mnnIFlJvQT“This ‘Just Stop Oil’ slogan is very playground-ish isn’t it, it’s very Vicky Pollard, quite childish,” Madeley said at one point. Though he admitted that society needs to “wean” itself off oil, he said that people “deeply resent having their personal lives massively interrupted.” Madeley also dismissed one of Whelehan’s points by commenting that “the clothes that you’re wearing, to some extent, owe their clothes to oil, because they were taken in a car or a truck or a van to a shop, you know?”“We’re talking about crop failure by 2030,” Whelehan retorted.
“We’re talking about people in this country, right now, in full poverty because of the prices of oil, and you’re talking about the clothes that I’m wearing?”Immediately, viewers took note of the eerie similarities between the fraught interview and a scene from “Don’t Look Up” in which climate scientists played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence appear on a morning talk show called “The Daily Rip” to warn the world about the asteroid coming to obliterate the planet. Instead of
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