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'The Hurt Locker' meets 'An Inconvenient Truth', THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES investigates the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability. Through unflinching case-study analysis, distinguished admirals, generals and military veterans take us beyond the headlines of the conflict in Syria, the social unrest of the Arab Spring, the rise of radicalized groups like ISIS, border walls, and the European refugee crisis - and lay bare how climate change interacts with other socio-political factors to exacerbate societal tensions and spark conflict.
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13 December 1920, New York City, New York, USA
11 October 1948, Starkville, Mississippi, USA
January 26, 2017
Stylishly edited and timely, but it's too angry, exhausting and repetitive while failing to be inspirational, balanced or truly enlightening.January 25, 2017
Scott's filmmaking does a smooth job of linking A to B to Z, with slick, studiously understated montage and an effective music score, although some of the arguments made seem a bit of a stretch ...November 11, 2016
A laser-guided film on the perils of climate change to national security, without a polar bear on a melting ice float in sight.February 15, 2017
None of these topics have escaped the notice of journalists covering the climate-change beat in recent years. But Scott packages these concerns and others in a smart way, and includes the occasional bit of eye-opening history.November 10, 2016
The election of climate change denier Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency underscores the urgency of this doc linking global warming to other crises.November 09, 2016
The only thing worse than a bad movie is a bad movie that thinks it's good for you. The Age Of Consequences is one of those.January 26, 2017
A startling documentary that presents new twists on the global climate change crisis and what to do about it.January 26, 2017
The information here is compelling and frightening, but the movie is ham-handed.February 15, 2017
Scott clearly isn't trying to make a definitive statement on the consequences of global warming -- instead he appears determined to encourage a new line of thinking.