
Weekend Watch: "The Kook"
For too many people, the threat of climate change is abstract—an arcane question of degrees centigrade, sea level inches, and CO2 parts per million. A new mockumentary by San Francisco filmmaker Sam Blakesberg challenges this notion by showing how a warming globe poses threats much closer to home. "The Kook" shows us what skiing might look like in a world without winter.
The film is goofy, yes. But it's also clear-eyed about our current environmental reality. If we don't fix the climate, winters will soon be gone—and skiing along with them.
Check out the trailer below, and watch full film here.