The main question that I have is that “Why didn’t the scientists band together?”
Well, it’s fiction. There’s no information content about what did or would happen except some indication of what’s in the mind of the writers. The scientists didn’t band together because it wasn’t written that way.
It’s obviously intended as a very thin metaphor for climate change, and to the extent that there are other topics which you consider a civilizational risk and most people aren’t taking seriously (like AI), it applies to just as well.
Sadly, “just as well” is a pretty low bar—there are MASSIVE differences in visibility, timescale, and certainty between the movie asteroid and whatever risk you’re comparing it to. Enough that even if it weren’t all made up for entertainment purposes, it still wouldn’t teach us much about real behavior or options.
Well, it’s fiction. There’s no information content about what did or would happen except some indication of what’s in the mind of the writers. The scientists didn’t band together because it wasn’t written that way.
It’s obviously intended as a very thin metaphor for climate change, and to the extent that there are other topics which you consider a civilizational risk and most people aren’t taking seriously (like AI), it applies to just as well.
Sadly, “just as well” is a pretty low bar—there are MASSIVE differences in visibility, timescale, and certainty between the movie asteroid and whatever risk you’re comparing it to. Enough that even if it weren’t all made up for entertainment purposes, it still wouldn’t teach us much about real behavior or options.
It was pretty funny, though.