When Words Aren’t Enough: The Visual Climate Story
Climate One · Climate One from The Commonwealth Club
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Show Notes
Guests:
Céline Cousteau, Explorer and Filmmaker
Davis Guggenheim, Director, An Inconvenient Truth; Founder, Concordia Studio
Cristina Mittermeier, National Geographic Photographer; Co-Founder, SeaLegacy
While IPCC risk assessments and emission projections can help us understand climate change, they don’t exactly inspire the imagination or provoke a personal response to the crisis. But a growing league of storytellers is using photographs, films and the human experience to breathe life into the cerebral science of climate change and conservation. “It's not the blockbuster, big-splash film,” says explorer and filmmaker Céline Cousteau, “It's truth, it’s intimacy, and some of it is ugly and some of it is beautiful.” So how far can images and sound go to inspire a global climate response?
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