HOW GAME OF THRONES IS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

Game of Thrones is secretly all about climate change

Christopher Haubursin and Zack Beauchamp, June 4, 2015 (Vox)

"Did you know that Game of Thrones is secretly about the world's terrible failure to stop climate change? …The show's much more entertaining stand-in for climate change is the White Walkers, the north-of-the-Wall monsters that command a gigantic zombie army…The White Walkers are a threat to all humanity…Yet instead of uniting to combat the shared threat to human existence itself, the noble houses…[spend] all their time on their own petty disagreements and struggle for power. White Walkers are generally ignored; some nobles deny their existence…Swap climate change for White Walkers and "countries" for noble houses, and it starts to sound a lot like the real world…Specifically, it sounds like the problem of international coordination on climate change…” click here for more

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