Green billionaires are pouring money into discreet campaigns to persuade Hollywood writers to catastrophize the climate in future film and television scripts.
One of their main vehicles is Good Energy, which tells writers that showing anger, depression, grief, or other emotions in relation to the climate crisis, “can only make characters more relatable”. [emphasis, links added]
Los Angeles-based Good Energy is funded by numerous billionaire foundations including Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Sierra Club, and the Climate Emergency Fund; the latter operation is part-funded by Aileen Getty who is one of the paymasters of the Just Stop Oil pests.
Good Energy aims to weave climate alarm into all types of filmmaking, “especially” if it is not about climate.
With the support of Bloomberg, it recently published ‘Good Energy – A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change’.
It claims the Playbook is “now the industry’s go-to guide to incorporating climate into any storyline or genre”. As with almost all green campaigning groups, Good Energy would not exist without the support of billionaire funding.
These operations seek a supranational collectivist Net Zero solution to a claimed climate emergency. Good Energy acknowledges it would not exist without this funding, adding, “As collaborators and champions, each has provided a unique contribution for which we are endlessly grateful”.
Announcing the launch of the ‘Playbook’, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the tax-efficient ‘charity’ channel for distributing the wealth of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, noted that “accurate and relatable storytelling about climate impacts and solutions can grow public support and motivate decision-makers”.
As regular readers of the Daily Sceptic will recall, billionaire foundations are grooming populations around the world by funding a variety of press, political, and academic operations.
Most significant nonprofit bodies seeking to stop the use of hydrocarbons are funded from these sources. Few green campaigns arise from ‘grassroots’ these days. Put to the vote, for instance, the Green Party in the U.K. loses most of its election seat deposits.
Since this is La La Land, Good Energy has some relevant advice for writers to normalize climate-friendly actions.
“Let’s reimagine what it looks like for a character to eat a plant-rich diet (Michelin Green Star restaurant, yes!), attend a protest or upcycle vintage clothes. And if your story requires a yacht, why not make it solar powered.”
That last idea might appeal to super-yacht lover Leonardo DiCaprio, but private planes, the preferred method of transportation for many high-end Hollywood stars, might be a problem.
Is hypocrisy a problem with all this? Not according to the Playbook, which quotes climate activist Bill McKibben that “hypocrisy is the price of admission in this battle.”
For plebs, gammons, flyovers, and deplorables, this, of course, translates as “You do what you are told and radically change your lives – we don’t give a flying flamingo.”
Needless to say, a mere climate crisis is not enough for über-woke luvvies. It is not separate from other critical social issues like racism, sexism, economic injustice, and war.
The Playbook notes that “Indigenous people are the first climate scientists, and Indigenous people are leading us through this climate crisis.”
Climate can be a “generative lens with which to view any subject or character”, the Playbook helpfully notes. For scripted entertainment, observes Good Energy, “the emotional truth is as important as the literal truth”.
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Hollywood lost its luster 30 years ago. After watching a few “end of the world” flicks they became utterly boring. What’s the point? These clowns predicted a very snowy winter for us in 2023-24 and here it is almost March and I can’t recall when we have had less snowfall. Global warming is as a big a farce as Hollywood has become.
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The Day After Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein
141 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 7, 1949
I get rather upset when people use a book title that has been used before. Especially when it’s a book I like.
Aileen Getty would be nothing without oil money she undeservingly inherits to waste on fools errands
The main stream media and our educational system are already massive propaganda groups pushing the climate fraud. The fact that the billionaires believe even more propaganda is needed shows that people are not being fooled as they hoped. By the way, incorporating the climate fraud into films is nothing new. The 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow” is one example.
Religion needs constant, repetitive reinforcement. Don’t want the flock to wander away.
They did make a big time bomb back in the 1990’s with Kevin Cosner Water World one of the more expensive flops ever made and just remember back when it was the Rain Forests Scam and Hollywood Junk like Ferngully the Last Rainforest. Hollywood becoming the maker of more leftists Propaganda aimed at Kids and known nothing Eco-Freaks
That’s all Hollywood needs, another controversial ‘crisis’ to push. They’re supposed to be producing money-making “entertainment”.
I have yet to sit down and watch a movie that was made after 1970. (Not quiet 100% accurate. I have a DVD of “The Gundown”, 2011, since I was a ‘townsman’ in that movie. I’ve watched it twice.)
“Indigenous people are the first climate scientists…” lmao!
A commodity fund manager is in a bar. He tells his friend that all he needs to get rich is someone who can predict the weather, accurately, 6 months out. “I know someone who can” says his friend. “He’s an Indian outside of town” “I want to meet him. What’s his price?” “A 40 of Canadian Club” . They go meet the gifted “seer” with his bottle. The investor asks “What kind of winter can we expect?” The Indian uncaps the bottle of CC, walks over to the kitchen window and takes a long pull. He stares and stares, then goes back to the table. “It’s going to be a long, cold winter, like we’ve never seen before” . “How do you know?”
“My neighbour’s wood pile is his biggest ever!”