Lights, Camera, Inaction: Where is Climate’s Starring Role?

Climate One

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


For show notes and related links, visit https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts

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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


For show notes and related links, visit https://www.climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2023-04-28 62 min
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