Nerdo's 'Anthropocene, LOL' Animates Climate Crisis with Dark Humor

The Turin-based studio Nerdo has released an animated short film titled 'Anthropocene, LOL' that uses irony to address the climate crisis. The video's promotional text lists current disasters: Venice flooded by the highest tide since 1960, Australian forests burning, 94,000 acres burned in California, the sixth mass extinction, weekly ingestion of 5 grams of plastic, US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under Trump, and Jane Fonda's four arrests for activism. The film surveys ongoing catastrophes and concludes with an inevitable apocalypse, but one that is catastrophic only for humanity; the Earth merely stretches and returns to its starting position.