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David Sirota is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. He co-created the story for the blockbuster Netflix film Don’t Look Up, which was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Writers Guild of America’s 22 award for best original screenplay. Sirota was also Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign speechwriter in 2020, the creator of MELTDOWN – a podcast on the financial crisis, a columnist at The Guardian and the founder and editor of The Lever. He is known as a rebel with a cause.
With Don’t Look Up, Sirota co-created an iconic film that boasts a star-studded cast, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande and Ron Perlman. It serves as a satiric cautionary tale, and exposes how inept the media, governments and the general culture have been dealing with climate change up to today.
“We can still stop this crisis, but it will require us to take it seriously. We have the technology to do this – the question is: do we have the will?”