Lights, Camera, Inaction: Where is Climate’s Starring Role?
Climate disruption is a bigger and bigger part of our lives, and yet there’s one place it still doesn’t show up much: our television and movie screens. Apple TV+ just released the series Extrapolations, a star-studded exploration of our hot and messy climate future. But why doesn’t climate get more play in Hollywood?
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Show Notes
Hollywood has been slow to include climate in its stories. Executives fear it won’t sell – that it’s too overwhelming or depressing. Apple TV+ has just released the series Extrapolations, which revolves entirely around the climate crisis. But it’s an outlier. We ask writer, producer and director Scott Z. Burns – who also worked on the films Contagion and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth – and Anna Jane Joyner of the climate story consultancy Good Energy about why climate doesn’t play a more prominent role in scripted entertainment.
Guests:
Scott Z. Burns, Writer, Director, Producer
Anna Jane Joyner, Founder and CEO, Good Energy
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