I was too young then to actually understand the public debate, but I remember Al Gore being ridiculed to the same degree we’d currently shit on a flat earther for taking climate change seriously. It was so absurd that South Park mocked it with the same sincerity they currently mock Trump. Just mentioning climate change as an actual immediate threat to McMansions and SUVs was the equivalent of saying you’re a vegan now in terms of how hostilely people took you. Even if they completely missed the mark with tsunamis destroying Manhattan, and at this point it’s such a chaotic system that fuck if I know that won’t be some tertiary consequence of some denary climate process I can’t even name, the only movie I can think of since which had the same kind of theme was Don’t Look Up. Both fell really short in the execution of it but you can’t tackle climate change accurately without it being the most depressing film ever made. Come and See would be wholesome and uplifting compared to the truly adequate climate change film.