@urlyman Chris Packham's made a pretty decent attempt, and is being gently but firmly nudged out of mainstream broadcasting as a result
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…One extraordinary thing about our predicament is that as the worsening of it accelerates significantly any attempt to communicate this en masse disappears.
In the UK, David Attenborough’s climate documentary was broadcast 6 years ago. It was a timid attempt and there has been nothing like it since that I can bring to mind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00049b1
(Update: see Jules’s reply below)
Don’t Look Up was 4 years ago. And it was flawed.
Culturally, we’ve kind of given up telling the story
@urlyman I pondered the other day, that Greta Thurnberg is making news for being tortured by the IOF with little or no mention of her environmental work in the media.
@urlyman exactly this, and, working on it :)
…All we have is people like Justin Rowlatt occasionally popping up to deliver a 2-minute piece that is designed to be ignored.
Where are the big personalities prepared to crack this open?
@urlyman Chris Packham's made a pretty decent attempt, and is being gently but firmly nudged out of mainstream broadcasting as a result
@afewbugs @urlyman The BBC occasionally covers these issues quite well, on consumer and science and even political programmes. But definitely not enough. They've forgotten we're in a crisis. We're the blooming frogs not realising that the nice tepid water will soon boil. We absolutely must keep pushing them to do more. And to give Packham a sainthood while they're about it.
…There’s plenty of big commissioning money for the story of our solar system and space, or for the deep geological history of our planet, but fk all that engagingly tells the story of where we actually are.
The story of our race towards the cliff. The story of what we could do to slow down. The story of how to prepare for what’s coming.
In my youth we had Where The Wind Blows. But now we have… meh, shrug
…What might help a bit is a lavish but brutally honest story of power generation and resource consumption.
The kind that Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is narrating, but only to those already looking.
A story that is not about global warming per se. It’s about our predicament, of which climate breakdown is just one facet. A story that looks honestly at the psychopaths and sociopaths and more honest innovators that forged it. And at the narrowing window for any of it to go on
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