{"id":13570,"date":"2019-12-17T10:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=13570"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:45:24","slug":"stop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-this-intense-praise-for-apocalypse-themed-climate-2020-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/stop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-this-intense-praise-for-apocalypse-themed-climate-2020-campaign-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"“Stop What You’re Doing and Watch This”: Intense Praise for Apocalypse-Themed Climate 2020 Campaign Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 16, 2019 by Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a catastrophe of our own creation\u2014but it doesn’t have to end this way,” says Andrew Romanoff, a Democratic hopeful for U.S. Senate running in Colorado.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screengrab from Andrew Romanoff’s first campaign ad entitled “Home.” In the campaign video, Romanoff says of bold climate action that “those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are already doing it.” (Photo: Romanoff for Senate)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Stop what you’re doing and watch this\u2014all the way through.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the reaction<\/a> Monday from youth-led climate group Sunrise Movement to a gripping new apocalypse-themed<\/a> campaign ad rolled out by Democrat Andrew Romanoff, who’s running in Colorado’s 2020 primary race for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have never ever seen anything like this before.” \u2014journalist Eric Holthaus<\/strong>Entitled “Home,” the four-minute video opens with an apocalyptic scene in Colorado Springs in “the not-so-distant future” in which a family appears to be taking shelter from the ravages of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I just hope we can see the sunshine again one day,” a young girl says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n