Age of Stupid

If you did not watch Age of Stupid recently, I definitively recommend it to you. BBC4 at 10:00 on a Monday evening is hardly prime time and it was up against Ugly Betty too. So I understand that you might have missed it.

But I believe that this programme is a must watch for every ETA member. Indeed for everyone twelve or over.

If you did not catch it at the cinema before Monday’s network premiere, then I recommend that you watch on your play it again service – if you have one.

The programme is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking why climate change wasn’t stopped before it was too late.

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The scenario depicted in the programme is possible and at current trends, probable. Only a determined change of course is likely to avert it.

The film is set in 2055 – the year when my twelve year old son will be about my age. The two of us watched it together. It was a poignant moment. At the end he asked me whether the ETA could sort it out. I replied that we could not do it on our own but we would do our best working with others. He sent me back to the office to do more. He did not want to go the same way as the last Neandertal – lonely and starving in some cold, damp cave in Gibraltar.