In a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ first, a ferocious and talkative dinosaur?bursts?into the iconic General Assembly Hall?at?Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ?Headquarters in New York, with a special?warning for?any?diplomats?who?still?think climate action?is for the birds.??
¡°At least we had an asteroid,¡± the?carnivorous critter?warns, referring to the popular theory explaining dinosaurs¡¯ extinction 70 million years ago. ¡°What¡¯s your excuse?¡±?
This isn¡¯t a slice of real life, of course, rather the key?computer-generated?scene from?a new short film launched this Tuesday by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Development Programme (), as the?centerpiece?of the agency¡¯s ¡®Don¡¯t Choose Extinction¡¯ campaign.?
The dinosaur?then?tells the audience of?bewildered?diplomats that?¡°it¡¯s time humans stopped making excuses and started making changes¡±?to address the climate crisis.??
A global production?
It¡¯s?the first-ever film to be made inside the?General Assembly?Hall?using computer-generated imagery, known as?CGI,?and features global celebrities voicing the dinosaur in numerous languages, including actors?Eiza?Gonz¨¢lez (Spanish), Nikolaj?Coster-Waldau?(Danish), and?A?ssa?Ma?ga?(French).?
?research released as part of the campaign shows that the world spends $423 billion annually?just?to subsidize fossil fuels,?enough?to?cover?a?COVID-19?vaccination for every person in the?world or?three times the annual amount needed to eradicate global extreme poverty.??
¡°Think of all the other things you could do with that money. Around the world, people are living in poverty," the dinosaur says.
"Don¡¯t you think that helping them would make more sense than¡paying for the demise of your entire species?¡±
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