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Movies For Thinking People - Three Films and a Book - January 2026

More and more movies are about Climate Change in various forms. Some I have watched lately include the very brilliant Danish mini -series "Families Like Ours" (2024) the prescient 2007 British Canadian Film "Flood," set in London and the French film "Green Tide."  "Families Like Ours" (SBS in Australia, CANAL in EU) - SBS links may not work outside Australia This was so good that I literally marathoned all 8 episodes, like a good book that you can't put down. It was about Denmark’s entire population having to be evacuated because of flooding and sea level rise. This is rather ironic because Denmark has prepared itself better than almost any country besides The Netherlands for just such an eventuality and has done more than most to mitigate against Climate Change too. Various countries offer to take what are in effectively Climate Refugees. People who have always had comfortable, predictable lives are now thrown into chaos. Strict limits have ...

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