On this day in 1992 Thelma and Louise wins the Oscar for best original screenplay.
What on earth has this got to do with climate change?
Well, a throwaway line by Harvey Keitel’s cop character, Hal Slocumb, sums up the human condition.
Another cop wonders aloud why these “girls” still haven’t been caught – are they really smart or just lucky? Hal Slocumb says “Don’t matter. Brains’ll only get you so far, and luck always runs out…”
.
Our species, collectively, is very very “smart” – that is, technologically adept. Opposable thumbs and a couple of millimiters of neocortex has been, well, wow. Sadly, we are also dumb as a rock, collectively, and it seems getting dumber.
We’ve been lucky so far, not to nuke ourselves on multiple occasions (probably more of them than the public knows about- “Imagine any mix up and the lot could go”). But if you load the dice against yourself for long enough, eventually your luck is gonna run out. Here comes the 21st century.
FWIW, someone should do a re”-reading” of this film in the context of Carla Daggett’s “Petro-masculinities”