Hollywood lends star power to climate crusade


LOS ANGELES: Climate change may be the challenge of our time, but when it comes to rallying the global public to the cause, a Hollywood star will always trump a treaty or summit.

Environmental threats loom large in many an American blockbuster, as in this year’s “Mad Max” about the fight for access to water, or “Interstellar,“ featuring a group of astronauts who leave an Earth made uninhabitable by plagues and sandstorms to seek a new planet.

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