# Don't Look Up **URL:** **By** Matthew Feeney, Trevor Burrus, Natalie Dowzicky **Published:** January 19, 2022 --- It's the end of the world, and Trevor Burrus, Matthew Feeney, and Natalie Dowzicky feel fine as they join us to discuss Adam McKay's climate panic fueled disaster flick "Don't Look Up.” Inspired by Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and in the vein of his financial crisis origin story, “The Big Short”, Adam McKay’s 2021 Netflix film, “Don’t Look Up” posits a world where the sky is falling, politicians are too self absorbed to do anything, and the media is hellbent on distraction by any means necessary. Trevor Burrus, Matthew Feeney, and Natalie Dowzicky join us to parse the fact from fiction, and explain how successful it is in getting its strident hope across.