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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
John Vidal

Eco Soundings: Spiked! lays into Age of Stupid (surprise!)

Pete Postlethwaite in Age of Stupid
Pete Postlethwaite stars as an archivist in 2055 in Age of Stupid. Photograph: Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid climate change film has been well received ("the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the institutional complacency shrouding the issue" – The Times; "You'd be stupid to miss it" – News of the World).

But it received one stinker of a review:

The film is so cretinous it makes Michael Moore look like a modern-day Bergman; so scientifically vacuous it makes Lysenko look like Einstein; so achingly middle-class it makes The Good Life look like a kitchen-sink drama about miners' wives.

Yes, it's from Eco Soundings' old chum Brendan O'Neill in online magazine Spiked!

Readers wanting an explanation may remember that Spiked! is the offshoot of Living Marxism and pursues an anti-environment, free-market, pro-corporate, libertarian agenda under the guise of being young, hip and leftwing.

Eco Soundings is our regular bite-sized blog series. It appears every Wednesday in the Guardian newspaper

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