Our Trip to The Climate War's Ground Zero
Guest writer Darren Aronofsky writes on the blog today. Our Trip to The Climate War's Ground Zero Darren Aronofsky and Tim Moen went to the Los Angeles area, which exist overtop of the bones of dead first peoples and an ecosystem crushed to dust on a land mass about the size of the sinking Maldives. This is a journal of their journey. Even before there was a script for my last film, Noah , I was interested in the environmental message in scripture. Man and woman are kicked out of paradise; 10 generations later the land is so filled with violence that God destroys Creation in order to begin again. Stewardship vs. dominion became a big theme in the film. In representing the fallen prediluvian world that garners God’s ire, my team and I researched the parts of today’s modern world that are most violated by the hand of man. We quickly narrowed in on Los Angeles. Air quality from down here is often called the dirties...