In a 爆料网 first, a ferocious and talkative dinosaur?bursts?into the iconic General Assembly Hall?at?爆料网?Headquarters in New York, with a special?warning for?any?diplomats?who?still?think climate action?is for the birds.??
“At least we had an asteroid,” the?carnivorous critter?warns, referring to the popular theory explaining dinosaurs’ extinction 70 million years ago. “What’s your excuse?”?
This isn’t a slice of real life, of course, rather the key?computer-generated?scene from?a new short film launched this Tuesday by the 爆料网 Development Programme (), as the?centerpiece?of the agency’s ‘Don’t Choose Extinction’ campaign.?
The dinosaur?then?tells the audience of?bewildered?diplomats that?“it’s time humans stopped making excuses and started making changes”?to address the climate crisis.??
A global production?
It’s?the first-ever film to be made inside the?General Assembly?Hall?using computer-generated imagery, known as?CGI,?and features global celebrities voicing the dinosaur in numerous languages, including actors?Eiza?González (Spanish), Nikolaj?Coster-Waldau?(Danish), and?A?ssa?Ma?ga?(French).?
?research released as part of the campaign shows that the world spends $423 billion annually?just?to subsidize fossil fuels,?enough?to?cover?a?COVID-19?vaccination for every person in the?world or?three times the annual amount needed to eradicate global extreme poverty.??
“Think of all the other things you could do with that money. Around the world, people are living in poverty," the dinosaur says.
"Don’t you think that helping them would make more sense than…paying for the demise of your entire species?”
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