R.The climate crisis has taken a new and frightening turn, and in the anticipation of catastrophic floods, the full mass of Denmark On the verge of evacuation. An effectively, the country will close itself and send 6 million people abroad, as they will have to deal with their best. Therefore, huge numbers of northern Europeans are transformed into refugees: a few wealth and relationships may have to reduce their passage from one life to another, but most of them are about to face this type of future -framed future in which they have always thought about the burden of others.
There is no reason to panic: this is not a news story – or no, in any case. It is the hypothesis of a new drama series of addiction entitled “Families Like us”, which BBC obtained and available on iPlayer. I have seen two episodes so far, and it was struck through the very clear way, and it inflated European positions of asylum. But what also struck me is to portray something just as it is talk: How a catastrophe appears to be revealed in the midst of daily life. Initially, watching it brings a feeling of impatience. Why most characters are very calm? Where are the horrific floods, forest fires and collective social collapse? Sometimes, it is The edges are boring. But then you realize that the very smart imagination that determines every moment: it is really a story about how we all live, and what may happen tomorrow, or the next day.
Writer and journalist Dorian Linkky, the wonderful Everything should go It revolves around the different ways that humans imagine by the end of the world. “In comparison with the nuclear war,” he writes, “The climatic emergency deprives popular stories narrators of their usual tool group. Global warming may move very quickly for the planet, but it is very slow for the imagination of the disaster.” Even when the worst happens at the end, most of us may respond with a kind of quiet mental abnormalities that may be more suitable for literature than the screen. With this point, Lynskey quotes a character in Margaret Atwood the year of the Flood: “No one recognized knowledge. If other people started discussing it, you set it, because what they were saying was very clear and unknown.”
These days, this type of thinking reflects how people deal with every aspect of our troubled world more than ever: If we can avoid our eyes from environmental collapse, you can reduce or ignore everything. There is a kind of moment, I would like to bet, and this is what is happening now for all of us. We look at our phones or run the radio and attack it through the terrible gravity in everything, then somehow managed to find our way to calm and natural sites. This, of course, is how humans have always been able to overcome the basic mental wires. But in its twenty -first century shape, it also has very modern elements. Our news extracts reduce everything to white noise and trivia: the result is that the developments that must be vital and disturbing become so boring that they seem unnoticed.
Where this leads politically it is now clear as a day. In New Yorker, Andrew Maranz wroteIn the wake of Trump’s re -election, on how democracies slide into tyranny. “In the Hollywood disaster,” he writes, “when the big person arrives, characters do not have to waste time in discussing whether it is happening. There is a sudden and sudden tremor, there can be a designed calm, in the real world, although people can come far away. This is true in how the climate crisis is normalized; it also applies to the way Trump and his authoritarian colleagues succeeded in normalizing their policies.
Marantz goes to Budapest, meets a Hungarian academic, admires the political exploits of the country’s Prime Minister, Victor Urban. He says, “Before you start, you say to yourself:” I will leave this country immediately if they do this or this terrible thing. “Then they do this, and stay. Things that would have appeared impossible 10 years ago, five years ago, you may not notice them. In order to match her time – and most of its supporters (and many spectators), it seems less terrifying than it is already.
Many of the same story began to happen in the UK. On the night of the local elections last week, I found myself in the ordinary suburbs completely in the hall of Grimsby, and I watched the victory speech by Andrea Jenkins from the United Kingdom, who was just elected as the great Lincolnchyar pillar. For some reason, she was wearing a separate group that made it look as if it were on its way to a luxury party under the title of the 1970s, which sparked some laughter that did not last. she He said that it was time to end To “Soft Britain”, suddenly called for forcing asylum seekers to force live in tents. This is the type of thing that the fascists are accustomed to saying, but it now descends in our political discourse with no more than just awe.
Meanwhile, life should continue. About 20 years ago, I went to exhibition One of the works carried out by French photographer Henry Cartier Price-one of them is from a family of four adults who are hiking by Marin, with their food and wine spread around them, and was located on the river bank. When I first looked at her, she wondered about her importance. But then I saw history on the adjacent painting: “1936-1938”. We cut the bread, drink alcohol while we are noise so that it continues like this. It stops being an option: as families like us suggest, this point may reach sooner than we think.
