ASSOCIATED PRESS • May 28, 2024
Researchers at Maine’s Colby College have published a study to determine if today’s Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis. “The top line is just that the vast majority of films, popular films produced over the last 10 years in the United States, are not portraying the world as it is,” Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, lead researcher, said. “They are portraying a world that is now history or fantasy — a world in which climate change is not happening.”