The climate films shaping society
2 years, 2 months ago

The climate films shaping society

BBC  

The climate films shaping society Marvel/Walt Disney Black Panther shows a visionary landscape of Wakanda: an anticolonial society powered by clean energy We need a subtler, more varied portrayal of climate change in film than just climate disaster blockbusters, says Becca Warner In a fictional hospital in Seattle, surgeons are sweating through their scrub caps as a heatwave descends on the city. In fact, according to Good Energy's commissioned research, just 0.6% of scripted TV and film released in the US between 2016 and 2020 mentioned the term "climate change". A US survey looking at how people's attitude to climate change impacts their likelihood to take political action on climate found that those most likely to engage in climate-related actions and feel like they can make a difference were people who felt "constructive hope". "If a climate scientist can go to work the next day and feel a little better, I feel like there's a lot of value in that," says Seymour.

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Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?

Salon  

Earlier last month, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that Earth’s average temperature in 2024 had been on average 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. “For too long now, scientific and media communications have presented the subject of climate change in ways that have failed to trigger an adequate threat warning among readers and viewers, and have also …

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is

LA Times  

To the editor: Climate change is the biggest threat facing us? Soon, that list may include the leaders of North Korea and Iran — and who knows how many others as the nuclear genie multiplies throughout the world? It is long past time for thought leaders to wake up to the world’s most urgent threat and get a real conversation …

Opinion: Helene destroyed my hometown. I don’t want climate change stories of false hope
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Helene destroyed my hometown. I don’t want climate change stories of false hope

LA Times  

Last week, as I boarded a plane from the Gulf Coast to NYC Climate Week, I checked the weather for updates on the disturbance that would become Hurricane Helene and called my partner to go over our evacuation plan. I told him I work on climate change, and he didn’t bat an eye: “Yeah, it’s getting biblical.” The hurricane didn’t …

Our climate change challenge
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Our climate change challenge

LA Times  

There’s no escaping the damage we’ve done to our planet. In 2015, almost 200 nations agreed to try to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius — or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — above preindustrial levels as part of the Paris climate accord. “At this point, it is really difficult to see a path to keeping warming below 1.5 degrees,” …

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it
5 months ago

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Climate change is driving extreme weather By all accounts, …

'Josh Kline: Climate Change' at MOCA drowns in good intentions
5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Josh Kline: Climate Change' at MOCA drowns in good intentions

LA Times  

In this grueling presidential election season, our chance to expand serious action against catastrophic climate change is hanging by a thread. Josh Kline, “Religious Fragility Meltdown,” 2023, mixed media These platitudinous sculptures made me wince, and not because of what they portend for a society that has so far largely fiddled as everything begins to burn. The tepid show’s largest …

"The Day After Tomorrow" is one of the only true climate change films. Why do scientists hate it?
6 months ago

"The Day After Tomorrow" is one of the only true climate change films. Why do scientists hate it?

Salon  

Like many successful screenwriters and directors, Jeffrey Nachmanoff resides in Southern California. Although he praised the movie for details like depicting the real-life collapse of Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf in 2002, Mann also said the film "gets a lot wrong." "The intention behind 'The Day After Tomorrow' was to spark a discussion on environmental issues and climate change, so …

Random Forays: Climate change- understanding what we can do
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Random Forays: Climate change- understanding what we can do

Hindustan Times  

Aren’t we feeling smothered by the searing heat which has melted all previous records this summer? Though everyone cannot plant mini forests, there are organisations like Eco Sikhs which are assisting those desirous of planting volumes of trees. At the recent launch of advocate Jatinder ‘Jay’ Cheema’s book titled “Climate Change- The Policy, Law and Practice”, the aspect of individual …

4 Climate Fiction Books To Read Right Now
8 months, 2 weeks ago

4 Climate Fiction Books To Read Right Now

Huff Post  

This story and interview originally appeared in HuffPost’s Books newsletter. One month after this report, Sarah Ruiz-Grossman released her debut novel, “A Fire So Wild,” adding to the vital voices in climate fiction, a literary genre marked by notable works such as Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 “Parable of the Sower.” As a former HuffPost reporter, this isn’t Ruiz-Grossman’s first foray …

The untold story behind climate change: we've known about the crisis for a while
10 months ago

The untold story behind climate change: we've known about the crisis for a while

Hindustan Times  

There is no particular moment in history when the threat of a changing climate moved from academics to public consciousness. The report made claims that “turned out to be correct”, Naomi Oreskes, professor of history of science at Harvard University, said during a podcast, “Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. The report found resonance just a few years later, …

When Cinderella fights climate change | The growing shelf of green literature for children
10 months, 3 weeks ago

When Cinderella fights climate change | The growing shelf of green literature for children

The Hindu  

In his book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, author Johann Hari puts forth the idea that our ability to focus deeply as a species is being systematically eroded, preventing us from taking collective action against climate change. “When you’re communicating something as bleak and horrible as climate disaster, humour helps soften the blow,” says the Pune-based illustrator. “The …

The best climate books of 2023 — and the titles we’re excited for in 2024
11 months, 4 weeks ago

The best climate books of 2023 — and the titles we’re excited for in 2024

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Goodell tells us how heat stroke melts your insides, killing you from the inside out; why American air-conditioning …

A climate conference hosted by an oil-rich country. That’s just one of the contradictions at the Dubai talks
1 year ago

A climate conference hosted by an oil-rich country. That’s just one of the contradictions at the Dubai talks

Associated Press  

The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said. “So things aren’t as bad as they could have been or as we worried they might be 20 years ago, but they’re still far from where we need …

Climate change ‘dystopian future already here’
1 year, 3 months ago

Climate change ‘dystopian future already here’

Al Jazeera  

Climate change is causing human rights emergencies around the world, the United Nations human rights chief says, specifically highlighting Iraq’s “spiralling damage” from global warming. In view of the record global temperatures this year, Guterres last week called for much more ambition in the fight against climate change to prevent “the worst climate chaos”. At last year’s UN COP27 climate …

Boiling Point: The climate change challenge is ours
1 year, 3 months ago

Boiling Point: The climate change challenge is ours

LA Times  

Farmworker Leticia Jimenez, 61, inside her home at the Oasis Mobile Home Park in August in Thermal, Calif. Edited by Alice Short, “Our Climate Change Challenge” focuses on what must be done to slow down and ultimately reverse global warming, and who needs to do it: not just government and business, but every one of us. More particularly, how are …

Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started
1 year, 4 months ago

Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started

LA Times  

Want to So we figured it was time for me to share a list of books I’ve found helpful, for newbies and experts alike. “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” by Amitav Ghosh : Don’t be deterred by this book’s academic appearance. Through meticulously reported examples, she explains why letting go of a “free market” economy is critical …

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?
1 year, 6 months ago

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?

Live Mint  

When we talk about the cost of the climate crisis, the implications are almost always depicted in financial terms. “For every 0.1ºC of warming above present levels, about 140 million more people will be exposed to dangerous heat,” said Professor Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, and one of the co-authors of the …

This controversial sci-fi blockbuster about climate change still polarizes scientists today
1 year, 7 months ago

This controversial sci-fi blockbuster about climate change still polarizes scientists today

Salon  

At the start of the third act of the 2004 sci-fi disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow," teenager and academic decathlon participant Laura Chapman shares her deep feelings of despair with her boyfriend Sam Hall. "For those who had seen the film, he concluded that it had a 'significant impact' on climate change risk perceptions, conceptual models, behavioral intentions, policy …

The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits
1 year, 7 months ago

The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits

The Hindu  

Lawsuits against emissions-spewing governments and fossil fuel companies have established themselves as a key tool in the battle against climate change, but they aren't always successful Even the temperate, mountainous country of Switzerland isn't immune to climate change. "One of the reasons it's so important to look closely at these cases and the impact they're having is because their impact …

Extrapolations review: Star-studded climate change drama is both patronising and predictable
1 year, 9 months ago

Extrapolations review: Star-studded climate change drama is both patronising and predictable

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The story arc takes place over the course of …

Opinion: One surprising source of hope for climate change? Fiction
1 year, 9 months ago

Opinion: One surprising source of hope for climate change? Fiction

LA Times  

As the climate crisis continues to reshape our world, climate fiction has become one of the fastest-growing genres in literature. But many works with cli-fi elements challenge our conception of sci-fi versus “serious” literature and might even obliterate the bounds of genre altogether: Take Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom”, and just about anything by George Saunders. Le Guin, for instance, who wrote …

Life in the in-between: the stories in Tomorrow’s Parties offer a glimpse of what living with climate change may look like
1 year, 9 months ago

Life in the in-between: the stories in Tomorrow’s Parties offer a glimpse of what living with climate change may look like

The Hindu  

This year is when the United Nations will do a “global stocktake” of the climate, “when countries will review progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, including the goal of keeping global warming to well below 2°C”. Similar stories of improbable wisdom and wild truths find space in Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene brought out by MIT Press as part …

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action
1 year, 10 months ago

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action

Live Mint  

The fight to battle climate change and global heating has always been one led by narrative. Despite decades of irrefutable scientific work that has shown the extent to which we are skirting with global disaster, the reality of climate change and its reason—our energy dependence on fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas—needed to overcome the denial and obfuscation of …

ROSS CLARK challenges the hysteria that surrounds climate change debates and argues they risk harm
1 year, 11 months ago

ROSS CLARK challenges the hysteria that surrounds climate change debates and argues they risk harm

Daily Mail  

Fear is very easy to spread. Yet if you report on every extreme event and throw in the term ‘climate change’, you will very rapidly plant the idea that the world is in some freakish transformation. In his 2006 climate change film An Inconvenient Truth, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore asserted that the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone …

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster

LA Times  

New climate data show that 2022 was among the hottest years on record but that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Another study showed the amount of heat being taken up by Earth’s oceans reached another record high last year. And it’s another stark reminder that despite some recent progress on climate policy, such as the passage of the …

12 Sci-Fi Stories to Help Make Sense of the Climate, Risk, and Our Digital Lives
1 year, 11 months ago

12 Sci-Fi Stories to Help Make Sense of the Climate, Risk, and Our Digital Lives

Slate  

Five years ago, Future Tense Fiction started publishing a short science-fiction story each month. Premee Mohamed’s “All That Burns Unseen” is a story about the future of wildfires and the fickle reasons some people are evacuated while others are left behind. Similarly, in their response to Matt Bell’s “Empathy Hour,” Yuliya Panfil and Tim Robustelli outline how we need to …

How Hollywood gets wildfires all wrong — much to the frustration of firefighters
1 year, 11 months ago

How Hollywood gets wildfires all wrong — much to the frustration of firefighters

NPR  

How Hollywood gets wildfires all wrong — much to the frustration of firefighters Enlarge this image toggle caption Bettina Strauss/CBS Bettina Strauss/CBS The new CBS drama series Fire Country, about a group of prisoners turned volunteer firefighters in Northern California, is aflame with the raging pyrotechnics and human melodrama that audiences have come to expect from pop culture takes on …

On climate action: books that tell us what is happening and what can be done
2 years, 1 month ago

On climate action: books that tell us what is happening and what can be done

The Hindu  

Climate change is no longer a subject of discussion for scientists alone. The COP27, this year’s most important climate conference underway in Egypt right now, has been described as the make-or-break moment for global action to get the Earth’s rising temperature under control. Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change is Nathaniel Rich’s ground breaking chronicle of …

Climate Questions: What’s going on with climate change?
2 years, 1 month ago

Climate Questions: What’s going on with climate change?

Associated Press  

Addressing climate change — a now ubiquitous term for the warming of the planet caused by humans emitting carbon dioxide and methane from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere — is becoming exponentially more pressing, with the language of scientists, officials and activists becoming more serious with every passing year. ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of …

Most TV shows and movies ignore climate change. That’s a problem
2 years, 1 month ago

Most TV shows and movies ignore climate change. That’s a problem

LA Times  

The famous Cinerama Dome movie theater in Hollywood, closed since March 2020 but expected to reopen eventually, is one of the places you could have gone to see films that ignore climate change. “Telling climate stories is not just good for the planet, it is in the best interest of an industry that seeks to engage audiences through authentic characters …

People Are Choosing to Ignore Climate Change; It Is a Political Decision: Amitav Ghosh
2 years, 2 months ago

People Are Choosing to Ignore Climate Change; It Is a Political Decision: Amitav Ghosh

News 18  

When it comes to climate change, author and social anthropologist Amitav Ghosh feels a personal responsibility to write about it, to talk about it, and to inform people about it. He feels a personal responsibility to write about climate change because he lived in Sundarbans for a long time and saw the impact there over the years. While Waters asked …

Climate change activism is no longer enough – it’s time for us to become ‘doists’
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate change activism is no longer enough – it’s time for us to become ‘doists’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. However, it’s not enough to simply worry about rivers running dry or to shake our heads as much of …

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’
2 years, 4 months ago

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There are plenty of reasons to believe climate change could become catastrophic, even at modest levels of warming,” said …

Teaching young people about climate change through comics
2 years, 5 months ago

Teaching young people about climate change through comics

Live Mint  

We know young people are “angry, frustrated and scared” about climate change. While these are important components, they overlook the social, cultural and psychological ways people around the world are affected by climate change. Here the teacher notes that climate change is impacting people around the world, “today we are going to explore some of these places”. By showing real …

5 authentic sources to keep yourself updated on climate change
2 years, 5 months ago

5 authentic sources to keep yourself updated on climate change

Live Mint  

A 2021 study by The Conversation and YouGov on 1,722 respondents living in the UK found that 50% of them couldn’t identify misinformation about climate change online, and a staggering 44% were unable to identify that they had been exposed to misinformation in the first place. “Every falsehood, distortion, and conspiracy theory about climate change is an obstacle to meaningful …

5 climate change books that you must read
2 years, 6 months ago

5 climate change books that you must read

Live Mint  

As we come up to World Environment Day on 5 June, I have been wondering what books to recommend to people for a better understanding of the climate crisis. It’s also a great place to gain hope that we can still stop it, because Mann gives equal importance to listing the positive work that is being done to mitigate climate …

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis
2 years, 8 months ago

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Today is Earth Day 2022 – which means the …

How dystopias can save the world
2 years, 8 months ago

How dystopias can save the world

BBC  

How dystopias can save the world Donovan Quintero/Weinberg/Newton Gallery Donovan Quintero's photos reveal the impacts of climate change on Navajo communities A new exhibition 'mingles the jolt of the dystopian with the lure of beauty', writes Diane Cole. Photography by Evan Jenkins Monument by Regan Rosberg combines black plastic with moss and orchids to startling effect Monument, the show's centrepiece, …

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report
2 years, 9 months ago

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report

LA Times  

Felisa Benitez, 86, wipes sweat from her brow while taking a break from cleaning a standing electrical fan outside her Pacoima home in August. “If we want to have effective climate change policy, we have to look at those human dimensions, and particularly those equity dimensions, and protecting some of the most vulnerable populations,” said Michael Méndez, an assistant professor …

JLF2022: Climate Change, Energy Conservation And Clean Energy To Be Major Topics Of Discussion
2 years, 9 months ago

JLF2022: Climate Change, Energy Conservation And Clean Energy To Be Major Topics Of Discussion

News 18  

Scheduled from 5th-14th March 2022, the Jaipur Literature Festival will bring a brilliant line-up of sessions on climate change and environment. In conversation with former diplomat and author Navtej Sarna, Maçães will discuss book Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaopdRfBpKj/ Urgency of Borrowed Time will also bring Lakshmi Puri, former Assistant Secretary-General of …

Urgent action needed to address climate change’s catastrophic threats, U.N. report warns
2 years, 9 months ago

Urgent action needed to address climate change’s catastrophic threats, U.N. report warns

LA Times  

A new United Nations report says climate change poses major threats to people and ecosystems around the world, and warns that effects could be catastrophic if humanity fails to quickly curb planet-heating emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. “The world’s biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home.” The report, which was released Monday by the Intergovernmental …

We write about climate change. Here's what gives us hope
3 years ago

We write about climate change. Here's what gives us hope

LA Times  

This is the Nov. 25, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. California’s attorney general is watching, filing legal actions against local governments that approve heavily polluting projects in communities already struggling with some of the state’s lowest air quality and highest poverty rates. It’s not just …

‘Betrayal of people, planet’: World reacts to COP26 climate pact
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Betrayal of people, planet’: World reacts to COP26 climate pact

Al Jazeera  

Mixed reactions to Glasgow Climate Pact as UN, US, China welcome deal and activists denounce more ‘blah blah blah’ from two weeks of talks. “It’s time to go into emergency mode.” US climate envoy John Kerry welcomed the agreement, saying good compromises leave everyone slightly unsatisfied. “There’s still a long, long way to go before we can say we’ve dealt …

‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks

Associated Press  

More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. We cannot drink oil, and we cannot breathe so-called natural gas.” Her words were echoed by a man tasked with steering one of the world’s richest economic blocs through the climate …

UN, US officials urge action to avert climate disaster
3 years, 1 month ago

UN, US officials urge action to avert climate disaster

Associated Press  

BERLIN — The U.N.'s top human rights official and U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate envoy called Thursday for countries to step up the fight against global warming, describing it as an issue of sheer survival for humankind. In a statement ahead of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, the global body’s High Commissioner for Human Rights said “only urgent, priority …

IPCC Report 2021: Climate change is very real
3 years, 3 months ago

IPCC Report 2021: Climate change is very real

The Hindu  

Several of Bihar’s 38 districts are flood-hit — people have lost lives, homes continue to get damaged, and countless agricultural fields have been inundated. These are numbing data, as numbing as the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’s Sixth Assessment Report. It adds that these temperature changes are further ‘amplified at the regional scale by regional processes such as …

Opinion: Stop blaming yourself for the climate crisis
3 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: Stop blaming yourself for the climate crisis

CNN  

Editor’s Note: John D. Sutter is a CNN contributor, National Geographic Explorer and MIT science journalism fellow. These numbers sound abstract, but they are the keys to how the world looks and feels for us and for future generations – the keys to whether New York is underwater or whether the Amazon dries up; to whether the West remains habitable …

Climate crisis is real and stems from human activity
3 years, 5 months ago

Climate crisis is real and stems from human activity

Associated Press  

CLAIM: CO2 is not a problem. Overwhelming scientific evidence shows global warming and climate change are real and caused by human behavior, including human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. THE FACTS: Despite record high temperatures throughout the United States in June, social media users took to Facebook on Thursday to spread misinformation about the planet’s warming temperatures and human beings’ role in …

How development and climate change are impacting lifestyles, cultural diversity: Five films that tell the story
3 years, 6 months ago

How development and climate change are impacting lifestyles, cultural diversity: Five films that tell the story

Firstpost  

As the climate movement demands awareness, several filmmakers have turned to narrative documentaries to tell these stories, following an individual or community through their journey of tackling the climate crisis. “If we can get people to spend their time thinking about this [then we’ve succeeded as filmmakers>.” This separation stands in stark contrast to the tribal way of life. “It’s …

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