The new darkish comedy Don’t Look Up shakes up the thought of what makes local weather film. Rather than focusing purely on bizarre science or Al Gore, it tells an awesome story by highlighting the felony inaction on local weather change. (Well, technically it’s a few comet headed for Earth, however it’s a transparent stand-in for our real-world disaster.)

It’s additionally not alone in telling a narrative about local weather change in a punchy means this 12 months. Don’t Look Up was preceded this summer time with a barely extra delicate local weather film: No Sudden Move, a mob thriller primarily based on a little-known conspiracy by automakers within the Nineteen Fifties to cowl up their very own analysis into air air pollution.

It’s nice that Hollywood appears to lastly be discovering methods to interrupt out of the drained previous mannequin of telling environmental and local weather tales utilizing both heavy-handed storytelling like The Day After Tomorrow or bogus sci-fi setups like Geostorm. Focusing on inaction or precise crimes places local weather in additional concrete phrases. While Don’t Look Up is pure fiction, there’s no scarcity of real-world examples of local weather fuckery to spotlight on the silver display screen. In the spirit of giving Hollywood some story fodder to maintain the momentum going, we’ve compiled an inventory of environmental crimes and criminals (in each the letter of the legislation and court docket of public opinion) that can be nice fodder for the following blockbuster. Have at it, film producers!