A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a forgone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves?

We realized that the biggest obstacle to the kind of transformative change the Green New Deal envisions is overcoming the skepticism that humanity could ever pull off something at this scale and speed. That’s the message we’ve been hearing from the “serious” center for four months straight: that it’s too big, too ambitious, that our Twitter-addled brains are incapable of it, and that we are destined to just watch walruses fall to their deaths on Netflix until it’s too late.

This film flips the script. It’s about how, in the nick of time, a critical mass of humanity in the largest economy on earth came to believe that we were actually worth saving. Because, as Ocasio-Cortez says in the film, our future has not been written yet and “we can be whatever we have the courage to see.”

[frostriver]

Just here because of Don’t Walk, Run! Productions
Andrew Rocks!

[chrituanrumple]

If you came here to see a farting cow painted you’ll be udderly disappointed.

[otherwisemaladroit]

Let's take a moment to appreciate Molly Crabapple the watercolorist! Damn fine work 👍

[DPTBAA]

I can't wait to watch to watch this again in 10 years lol

[bassmaster]

Did they say who was going to win the Super Bowl in 2028?

[estersoumekh]

I came here for the scathing comments and I must say, I am not disappointed

[mrwarlord]

As the late Mark Fisher once wrote: "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism."

[mrfisher]

Huh I didn't known native Americans are basically those blue aliens from avatar.

[TtrebuchetT]

Politics aside, the artist is really good.

[johanneskiessling]

Reading a number of comments here taught me a new thing: Once you have learned to live with you head buried in the sand - you live forever.

[knowledgeiskey]

*I feel like we shouldn't be able to see who our politicians are;*
_this would mean we could vote on their policies, not their skin color, sex, or sexual orientation._


idk maybe we could hear their voices...

[thnksno]

I think we're almost down a year since I first heard about this 12 year ultimatum. Shouldn't we be saying we only have 11 years left?

[jimbobcooter]

The American people can have whatever the want- if only they organize for it. -Eugene V Debs

[Bob-kobh]

“And I get to tend the rabbits!” ~ Lennie

[secrets]

Wishful thinking but not realistic! You forgot to include unicorns, your fairy godmother and your knight in shining armor.

[The_Ninja_Tree]

Since I haven't seen any comments on the artwork it is beautiful

[ntxxhi]

People say she’s too optimistic, but someone who is optimistic is what we need right now to get things back on track.

[JimboLogic]

At least the comment section is open for now.

[notallthatbad]

I don't understand what she has against cows. They are outstanding in their fields.

[bard]

So, just to be clear here, Ilyana is a fictional character, right?