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Oliver Stone on Nuclear Energy: ‘We Need to Get Away From Mentality of Fear’
Ben Croll Presenting his latest documentary, “Nuclear,” at the Venice Film Festival, director Oliver Stone reflected on the climate crisis in a tone all too rarely struck – optimism. “[We need to] get away from that mentality of fear,” Stone said from a press conference just before his film’s world premiere. “Like everyone else, I saw ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in 2006, at it was scary. I kept reading the news, and it kept getting worse.” “The movies, television, books [about climate change] are all negative,” he continued. “And I find all that doomsday stuff to be depressing beyond belief.”
