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Jon Stahl wants people to take advantage of the movie The Day After Tomorrow to raise concerns about climate change.

But he's afraid that "unnamed environmental activists" will squander the opportunity.

An article from Grist looks at the pros and cons of this approach

So should environmentalists be cheering the news that Hollywood has finally managed a green epic? Many are. Al Gore will speak at a special MoveOn.org premier of the film. Jurgen Trittin, the German environment minister, lambasted the Bush administration last week for its failure to ratify the Kyoto treaty, saying, "[Our] challenge is that the reality of The Day After Tomorrow should not become reality." Plenty of political commentators predict the film will drive home an election-year message that the Bush administration has been ignoring a crisis.

For some time now I've been trying to figure out what it would take to reduce the behavior in the US that contributes to climate change. Currently, I have the pessimistic opinion that it will take nothing less than the occurrence of a cataclysmic, deadly heavy weather event inside the US itself.

[links via WorldChanging]