Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Posted: 22nd February 2024

Leave the World Behind got negative reviews from those who took the film too literally, argues Linda Pentz Gunter. Instead, it is a deep metaphorical dive into denial, as applicable to our failure to recognize and act on nuclear dangers and the climate crisis as the cyber risks it depicts.

The price of complacency

Leave the World Behind, streaming on Netflix, is a multi-layered and almost entirely metaphorical look at our stubborn insistence on ignoring the threats that are bearing down on us. While the plot is centered around mysterious cyber attacks, the warning it delivers applies equally well to our failure to recognize or act upon the existential threats of climate change, nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Waiting until it’s too late isn’t an option, but the film delivers chillingly on what that choice could look like. READ MORE

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