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Message from above: the stars of Netflix's Don't Look Up, which satirises our “shrug it off" approach to the climate crisis

The big Netflix hit over Christmas was Don’t Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as astronomers who discover that a comet is on track to destroy the Earth. A Trumpian US president, played by Meryl Streep, refuses to take their warnings seriously, a disregard shared by a media class obsessed with celebrity trivia and a population stupefied into inaction.

Few viewers will have missed the film’s political message. The comet, of course, represents climate change. And, suggests the film-maker Adam McKay, the flailing response of the Don’t Look Up characters is similar to our collective flailing right now, when confronted with an emerging global catastrophe.