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David L. Pike

Stop embracing the "bunker fantasy"

Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky, Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, and Timothée Chalamet as Yul in "Don't Look Up" Niko Tavernise/Netflix

At the end of the Academy Award-nominated film "Don't Look Up," with a meteor hurtling toward Earth, the movie's three scientist-protagonists gather with family and friends for a last supper around a dinner table in central Michigan.

Having exhausted their efforts at action, they eat the food they've prepared and purchased, give thanks and pray before "dying neighborly" – to borrow a phrase coined by poet and writer Langston Hughes in 1965.

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