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Lessons from Disaster Movies

A Point of View

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Surviving in the Face of the Biggest Disasters

It can get disheartening when life seems like only the bleakest movies where good is weak, evil triumphs and terrible things happen. But those films we've all watched have more lessons. They suggest ways to survive. Big problems do not arrive alone. Even if you avoid war, famine, conquest, life is frail and ends sadly so why wouldn't we want to minimize all other threats? For teenagers now, facing climate catastrophe, watching movie teenagers get picked off in creepy summer camps,. creepy houses, creepy games, surely artists echoing potentially doomed futures.

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