{"id":1125,"date":"2009-09-23T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/09\/23\/mars-attacks-sydney\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:03:10","slug":"mars-attacks-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/09\/23\/mars-attacks-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars attacks Sydney!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The photos are a bit too beautiful to resist sharing. And the stories taken from the archive of the already screened: “like scenes from Mad Max,” “like waking up on Mars,” “like a nuclear winter morning”. . . White urban Australia’s dreamtime apocalypse of being taken over by the Outback, the uncanny aboriginal sacred<\/a> that still haunts the landscape, as cinematized in Peter Weir’s Last Wave and countless other Australian films. Somewhere in there one can find a climate change signature<\/a>, or at least an El Nino initial. Jon Snow<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n


\n“Australia, in the past twenty-four hours has suffered earthquakes, hailstorms and dust attacks. Leaving the earthquakes aside (but we shouldn\u2019t) the red dust storm was ignited by a red sun catching the thick granules of soil erosion blown together from half way across the continent and left to hang on the eastern rim of Australia.<\/p>\n

“The country has been suffering a drought for the worst part of a decade \u2013 acute dryness, acute heat, stoking increasing anxiety that where the Australian climate leads, the world will follow.”<\/em><\/p>\n

All of which reminds me of The Age of Stupid<\/a>, which I attended the local ‘global premiere’ of a couple of days ago, and which, despite its not-too-promising title, was pretty impressive. A multiple-narrative documentary on global warming (I can hear the yawns) wrapped in a sci-fi narrative convention a little reminiscent of Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, but well put together and not too heavy-handed. The post-screening satellite link-up featured Kofi Annan, UK enviro czar Ed Miliband, and Thom Yorke playing the beautiful (if a little inscrutable in performance) tune “Reckoner”, which you can watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See Times Online<\/a> and Google images<\/a> for more of Sydney’s red dawn.<\/p>\n

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