Filmmaker Richard Curtis worries politicians are too stuck in the past to be able to effectively counter climate change. Believing that, like people tending to favour films they watched when younger, those in Westminster remain too concerned with the environmental issues prevalent previously, rather than those which matter today.
“Politicians are haunted by the issues they engaged when they were 20 or 30. If you ask most people: ‘What are the best films you’ve ever seen?’ Most name five they saw in their twenties. They don’t think about what’s happening now. I often think politicians are solving the problems of the last generation,” said the 66-year-old, as he joined former Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, on stage at the Southbank Centre.
