Grist.org Interviews The Age of Stupid Director Franny Armstrong

The Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong took a few minutes to chat with Ashley Braun of Grist.org about the film's part documentary, part back-to-the-future format; its scare-tactics approach to climate change; and what it's supposed to inspire (or depress) you to do.

Read more here:
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-18-video-interview-director-Armstrong-cl...

The Age of Stupid is a film starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didnt we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Its U.S. eco-premiere in New York City is Sept. 18, 2009.

http://www.ageofstupid.net/

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[caveatemp]

@bin1127 You're being sarcastic, right?

[bin1127]

@caveatemp Oh come on. Read any government study about depleted uranium and you will know that the radiation level is so low virtually no harm is done. And the military are here to protect your freedom. Don't start getting paranoid about the military using force to secretly asserting their influence on foreign countries. What are we? Stupid?

[meursault48]

Gosh isn't she clever. Leni Riefenstahl for the 21st century. This woman is dangerous, more so, as she seems to have the ear of so many deluded fools who 'believe' in AGW.

[mostmusicisbad]

If she had a wash and a makeover and stopped hating her fellow man she could be almost shaggable.

[no1froggy]

@arcart0 none of the elitists will give a shit, they are only in this scam for the money & know damn well there aint a problem.

[caveatemp]

What a fantastically ironic title! She's the leading thinker in the age of stupid. So that makes her the Queen of Stupid. Anthropogenic climate change is the biggest environmental farce in history. What about GMO and depleted uranium? What about the military industrial complex, Queen Stupid?

[arcart0]

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An annual saving in the UK of 1.5 Terawatt of electricity. About £225,000,000 worth of electricity at 15p a unit and 650,000 Tonnes of CO2. Unfortunately neither the cleaner manufacturers or the Government are interested. Maybe you could help.

[cupera1]

This is a case of, Do as I say, not as I do. The elitist in this film, will continue to live in their four mansions, fly on private jets and run up electric bills 20X of the rest of us. They have no intension of stopping their life styles to save the planet. Of course these people will kill off billions of humans that can not be supported with green farming will not include themselves. The rest of us, the great unwashed, to the elitists, will have to live in live like the Unibomber

[datca2001]

your voice is lovely and very excited when u explain it