The Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Featured a Segment on Global Warming
If you aren’t watching the Olympics tonight, you may have missed the segment they devoted at the opening ceremony to global warming.
There was actually an Inconvenient Truth-like video presentation, a young man on the Olympics stage looking down and seeing a flower blooming, and narration provided by a bunch of different people, including Dame Judi Dench.
People were a little thrown by the climate change portion of the program:
THIS GLOBAL WARMING VIDEO OMG LIKE UHHHH #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/G1EPtdTFP6
— Marcus Hawkins (@HawkinsUSA) August 6, 2016
Brazil bringing the excitement with a Power Point presentation on global warming.
— Simon Holland (@simoncholland) August 6, 2016
This global warming bit of the Brazil opening ceremonies is … interesting. If US gets 2024 games, I hope focus is on entitlement reform
— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) August 6, 2016
Makes sense Brazil would focus on global warming. Probably distracts from Zika, corrupt government, and ocean of poop.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 6, 2016
I feel like global warming might not be the biggest issue facing the people of Brazil …
— Whitney Neal (@WhitneyNeal) August 6, 2016
“We need to curb global warming!” – Olympics
“Actually, we’d really like it if you’d tackle our destroyed economy.” – Brazilians
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) August 6, 2016
When Rio lectures us abt pollution & so-called "global warming," but no one can drink their water. #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/wMmtAIhaBU
— Ben Crystal (@Bennettruth) August 6, 2016
Watch a short clip above, via NBC.
[image via screengrab]
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