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Yet so many aspects of The Age of Stupid are confounding. When making the film, Gillett hoped that it would serve as a rallying call, perhaps sparking a grassroots public uprising. In the event, she says, it has been the other way round, with politicians of every stripe keen to be associated with it. The makers have been asked to organise special screenings for representatives of organisations from the UN to the World Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency to Obama's thinktank.

Is there a danger here? One wonders if The Age of Stupid has become so successful that it risks becoming a gift-wrapped PR opportunity for politicians and business leaders – allowing them to bask in its reflected glory without doing anything substantive to head off the pending apocalypse.