Don’t Look Up: how climate change and Christianity are pretty similar
Over Christmas, I watched Don’t Look Up , and loved it. If you haven’t seen it, it is all about how the world fails to take seriously the threat of a massive asteroid heading towards earth to their peril, with the aim of showing the foolishness of our world’s similarly apathetic attitude to the threat of climate change. But funnily enough, I thought it was a brilliant film in showing the foolishness of a similarly apathetic attitude towards Christianity. Here are two big ways that Christianity parallels climate change shown in this film: Belief because of evidence Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play two astronomers who know their stuff when it comes to asteroids. They don’t think an asteroid is coming because of a hunch or because they are deeply pessimistic; they know it is coming because of their scientific evidence. The parallel to climate is clear – it is evidence that underpins climate change, not just hunches or mindless doom mongering. The same idea is true when