There was no ice age. What the movies portray is not always true. What you’ve been taught since childhood is not true. There was no ice age, there are, however, ice ages.
Every 100,000 years the earth makes a full rotation around the sun and the sun makes a full rotation around its axis. During this time the earth goes through a heating and cooling period. About 12,000 years ago we entered the Holocene, the most recent ice age. For about 90,000 years the earth cooled, Neanderthals and the ancient Homosapien scavenged throughout Africa and Eurasia. Then, 12,000 years ago the sun turned and the earth started heating, releasing carbon dioxide which would later be cooled and hidden in ice. This is routine for the earth, the earth will try to do this for the rest of time if unaffected. Of course the earth is far from unaffected.
We are called Homo Sapien Sapien, or Man Smart Smart, so how can we be so smart yet so stuck on destroying the earth we inhabit. Modern Man has successfully doubled the amount carbon dioxide that hasn’t been in the atmosphere in millions of years, by burning and using oil and other “necessities” the smart smart people of the earth have been killing themselves slowly.
The Age of Stupid is placed in the future, it portrays the future of what the earth is supposed to look like if we continue on this self-destructive path. An archive is built in the arctic and a man records the reasons why his children and grandchildren aren’t alive. He looks at the lives of certain people living in the years up until the year 2015, when “it all went south.” He follows the life of a 23-year-old women who desperately wants to become a doctor to cure her village in Nicaragua, from the ills that the company SHELL has brought upon them. A family man tries to put up a wind farm in Cornwall that will fuel 11,000 homes, and an old mountain guide who reminisces when you could just step onto the glacier on Mt. Blanc instead of using a ladder to climb onto it.
The movie centers around the attempts of the few that will never outweigh the actions of the many because so many choose to ignore them. The movie makes an analogy to the holocaust, saying that people killed and hurt because everyone else was doing it. The same concept applies to the earth today, people choose to abuse it because everyone else is doing it.
The movie points out that the little things that we’re doing don’t have any affect on the long term, only, and only if we do something immediate and irreversibly good, can we save ourselves and save the earth. Because right now we are ignorant and stupid, we are the age of stupid, now lets be smart because that’s how we named ourselves.
