That's the Canadian trailer for Burn Up, a mini-series that the BBC will be bringing to the UK. The trailer the BBC ran before Newsnight made it rather clearer that this is all actually about climate change and evil climate change deniers.
This, from the BBC press release, reads like satire:
"Neve Campbell plays his colleague Holly, whose covert collaboration with environmentalists puts her in great jeopardy, and Bradley Whitford plays Tom's best friend Mack, a charismatic yet unscrupulous oil industry lobbyist.
Burn Up follows the trio's lives and loves as they hurtle towards a global climate change summit."
Somehow, I think a fair portrayal of the global debate over climate change policy is a bit unlikely. Will the debate over what to do be cast as anything other than a black and white moral issue largely ignoring the human cost of pushing up the price of energy? Will the programme reflect the fact that 'green' campaigners are far better resourced than sceptics? Will anyone opposing climate change alarmism have any motive that isn't purely mercenary or malicious?
I can say, with just the tiniest margin of doubt, that the answer to almost all those questions is no.
