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The U.S. premiere of director Franny Armstrong's eco docudrama, The Age of Stupid, will be bolstered by a unique worldwide, in-theater event on Sept. 21, including live satellite coverage of field scientists across the globe, spanning from New York, to the Himalayas and all the way to a remote, Indonesian rain forest.
The Age of Stupid LIVE from New York is hitting 444 movie theaters nationwide and begins with a viewing of the film, a dramatization that forecasts the state of life on Earth decades into the future, where warnings of climate change were ignored over the years. The story is told through a global archivist in 2055, played by Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (Usual Suspects).
A panel discussion will follow the showing, and will feature an interesting mix of world-renown scientists, political figures and celebrities, including former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and The X-Files' Gillian Anderson. The event will wrap up with a performance by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, who will be playing an acoustic version of the film's title track.
The evening's most resourceful festivity will be a live, green-carpet procession in New York's Winter Garden, where guests will breeze in via bicycle, solar car, rickshaw, sailboats (!?) and other green means of transportation.
The Age of Stupid LIVE from New York is presented by NCM Fathom and Spanner Films in high definition. It debuts Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Tickets are available at participating theaters and online at FathomEvents.com.
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"Boy, everyone is stupid except me." - Homer Simpson
If today is looked back on as "The Age of Stupid" it will be because people believed the unscientific green propaganda that said humans were causing global warming--even whilst global temperatures were falling!! Tides were higher in the mid-Atlantic this year due to a change of winds. Temperatures were extremely cool across the Midwest due to increased volcanic activity on the continent. Global temperatures on Mars have risen and fallen roughly the same as those on earth due to fluctuations in sun activity. Carbon dioxide, the element usually faulted, is the essential compound necessary for all plant growth, and putting limits on CO2 will mean less plant life. And less plant life means less oxygen for us humans to breathe. There is NO scientific evidence for a human-caused rise in global temperatures, and Gore and Annan are just pushing this propaganda in order to bolster their desires for more world-wide government via carbon rationing. I hope my favorite magazine doesn't encourage "The Age of Stupid" by falling for this global warming drivel. I buy organic and oppose pollution because the chemicals make us sick and cause cancer, not because industry warms the planet.
Thanks, OrganicGuy, for forwarding along the coal industry's propaganda. Did you earn your $5 per post? Well put. Ass.