Which words and images do you associate with extinction?
Do you know any species which are in danger of extinction?
What is the difference between extinct, endangered and vulnerable species?
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status
What do you know about th UN?
Watch a video made by The United Nations called "Don't choose extinction!"
Netflix’s popular movie Don’t Look Up - Based on Truly Possible Events has received a lot of media attention and continues to divide the critics. Some people loved the movie, some hated it.
What was your initial reaction to the movie?
What did you like? What did you not like?
Read the following comment from Screenrant.com What does it mean?
“The mixed critical response for Don't Look Up [...] seems to have been negatively impacted by a sense that the satirical premise is just too on-the-nose, eliciting eye-rolls with its caricatured criticisms of society's lowest-hanging fruit. [...]
However, the other side of the debate surrounding Don't Look Up argues that a lighter touch would have made for a less effective movie.”
Have your feelings about the movie changed or intensified over time?
What is the message the movie is trying to convey? What are the “truly possible events”?
Look at the comment below that was made by a viewer. Do you agree with it? What do you not agree with?
Adam W. on https://gizmodo.com/why-people-cant-stop-talking-about-dont-look-up-1848288646 :
I think the reason so many of us aren’t really talking about climate change is that we’re f****** tired and hopeless. We’ve reached the point the characters reach in the final act - we’ve talked, we’ve advocated, we’ve “raised awareness,” we’ve supported politicians we thought would do something, and we’ve realized that there is nothing more we can do about this. Nothing more than we’ve already done. The people with the power to actually save us, who could make choices that would make a real difference, aren’t going to and won’t be swayed by anything we have the power to do. [...] We’re out of moves, and while we can see what needs [to be done], we don’t have any power to force it to happen.
So, we’re focusing on the people in our immediate sphere and trying to enjoy life as much as we can so we don’t just go crazy with grief and fear and anger. Climate change is coming, it will not be averted, and [...] our only hope left is that, once the effects start really ruining lives/killing people, it’ll shake the rest of the population hard enough that they’ll finally stand up and give a d**n. [...].