For me the most memorable and effective part of Pacific Rim was the bit where they decided to stop fighting the Kaiju and just build big walls. And after a couple years of wsll-building a Kaiju smashes right through a wall. I think of that and climate change effects all the time. Milton Kaiju.
To be fair, at least in the movie we don't get to see people blatantly lying in front of facts telling others "Kaijus aren't real, Kaijus don't exist, the mass destruction of cities is just a minor collateral, it shouldn't get in the way of progress and business".
I think about the Dutch response to the north sea floods of 1953: building the Delta Works project over the next 50 years en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslan...
Just to be clear on the facts, the peak of that movie is when they shout "elbow rocket", GlaDOS repeats "elbow rocket" and they fire up the elbow rocket and punch the kaiju in the face. I loved the sheer stupidity of it