Tenet, climate change and intergenerational justice

Caution – this article contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen Tenet yet, maybe come back later.

School restarted last week, so my wife and I hightailed it to the cinema to see Christopher Nolan’s new film Tenet. Other commentators can tell you about the various merits of the film, its action sequences and its time twisting plot. I want to talk about it in relation to climate change. Obviously.

Tenet deals with a World War III scenario where the future is at war with the past. The future is medd...