Have you been following the "Polar Vortex" that's walloping Winnipeg, the prairies and central Canada? And of course the central Midwest in America too.
As I found myself home with a cold/flu the last couple of days I had a bit of unscheduled time (a precious rarity it seems). I was feeling a bit better today so I decided to look up a movie online that I
haven’t seen yet (it’s only been out for 15 years, LOL) that feels somewhat
relevant this week, “The Day After Tomorrow”. It’s about climate change, but sped up about a hundred or a
thousand times. Amazingly enough I found it easily online and
watched it this morning.
Although it is of course fiction (but don’t take that as a personal denial of
Climate Change please), it was interesting to note a couple of scenes in particular. The first one was weather-related disaster footage of a pier having
been torn apart by high winds and hurricane-force winds (does the White Rock,
BC pier ring any bells?) |
| "The Day After Tomorrow" fiction vs January's White Rock, BC pier catastrophe. |
But the most ironic scene by far was the mass American exodus
to the southern border to flee rapidly approaching deadly cold only to be
greeted by a closed Mexican border (in my imagination to be followed by The
Simpsons’ Nelson’s sing-song guffaw “Ha, ha”). Of course the next scene shows
Americans abandoning their cars en masse and crossing a river by foot to gain
illegal access, carrying children and suitcases.
“Move along people, no sarcasm to be seen here.”
In this scenario I bet a certain un-named President would be pretty happy there's no wall to impede the climate "refugees".
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