I’ve not read the books, and I don’t watch the show, but I feel confident in saying that, contra Vox, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones is, in fact, not “secretly all about climate change.”
“The White Walkers are a threat to all humanity,” writes Vox: “their zombie minions are equally happy to rip apart people of all nations and noble houses. Yet instead of uniting to combat the shared threat to human existence itself, the noble houses in the show spend basically all their time on their own petty disagreements and struggle for power. White Walkers are generally ignored; some nobles deny their existence outright.”
The argument is that one can “swap ‘climate change’ for White Walkers and ‘countries’ for noble houses, and it starts to sound a lot like the real world.”
This sounds like a fun game. Does it work with anything else?
IRAN’S HOPES FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPON are a threat to all humanity: THE MULLAHS are equally happy to rip apart people of all nations. Yet instead of uniting to combat the shared threat to human existence itself, WESTERN NATIONS spend basically all their time on their own petty disagreements and struggle for power. IRAN’S HOPES FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPON are generally ignored; some LEADERS OF WESTERN NATIONS deny their existence outright.
Golly, sounds a lot like the real world, doesn’t it? Must be what the show is (secretly) all about.