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    ‘It’s a slow catastrophe’: artists try to tackle the dangers of rising sea levels

    How should culture respond to the climate crisis? Can it provide a wake-up call that isn’t so brutally loud and depressing that we don’t just smash the alarm clock and go back to sleep? Exhibit A in
    Jan 24, 2022 4 minutes

    How should culture respond to the climate crisis? Can it provide a wake-up call that isn’t so brutally loud and depressing that we don’t just smash the alarm clock and go back to sleep?

    Exhibit A in such debates right now is Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay’s comedy/disaster film about two astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) trying to warn that an Everest-sized comet is hurtling toward Earth. The star-studded allegory of distraction and denialism has been panned by critics but praised by climatologists.

    Don’t Look Up zooms out on a stellar scale; zooms in to hyperlocal effects of sea level rise, tidal flooding and shoreline erosion in Florida.

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