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Most TV shows and movies ignore climate change. That’s a problem
The Los Angeles Times ^ | November 2, 2022 | BY SAMMY ROTH

Posted on 11/03/2022 6:32:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The climate crisis is the biggest story of our time. So why isn’t the entertainment industry acting like it?

You’d think liberal Hollywood types — with their Teslas and vegan diets and eco-friendly beauty products — would be chomping at the bit to tell stories about climate. But despite a few high-profile examples — such as “Don’t Look Up” — global warming is largely absent from nearly all the TV shows and movies being produced today, according to a new report out of USC.

It’s a collective failure of epic proportions — not just for human civilization, but also for TV and film audiences.

“As the crisis worsens and more Americans gain first-hand experience to climate change, stories that do not acknowledge climate will begin to feel irrelevant or divorced from reality,” the report states. “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 and narratives.”

As a journalist deep in the climate trenches — and a young person concerned for my own future — I agree that we need climate stories on our screens to help people understand what’s happening and motivate them to fight for solutions.

At the same time, the idea of such a scary topic working its way into my entertainment is, well, kind of scary. As much as some folks loved “Don’t Look Up,” I didn’t especially enjoy it. It made me feel gloomy. Do I really want or need more of that?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: chatnotnews; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; sammyroth; socialism
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To: EBH

if you want to be entertained ask one of these libholes to explain the difference between climate-change & weather


41 posted on 11/03/2022 6:52:27 AM PDT by wny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sure We already have more token “POC” on shows movies and commercials

So just add thrilling “Globull “Warming’” suspenses and let’s watch your remaining TV and movies audiences dwindled to near zero

Recipe for success if there ever was one

Besides, comedies on the subject will be more entertaining


42 posted on 11/03/2022 6:54:25 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Nancy's beard is larger than a pirate's . . . Covering for Pervert Paulie)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People are barely going to movies now because we’re tired of leftist B.S. being flung in our faces.

People mostly go to movies or watch TV to be entertained, not lectured to by a bunch of smelly progressives.

Throw that global warming hoax crap in there and you might as well stop making movies or TV shows.


43 posted on 11/03/2022 6:54:40 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: dfwgator

No, you’re thinking of Hyman Roth. He was big in Havana.


44 posted on 11/03/2022 6:55:50 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sammy Roth graduated high school in 2010. BA from columbia in “sustainable development.” Another highly qualified omniscient millenial.


45 posted on 11/03/2022 6:56:26 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


46 posted on 11/03/2022 6:56:26 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Alas Babylon!; dfwgator

I really don’t know much about Van Halen or anyone related to that band...
Being from East Tennessee, I followed more country music than anything else, and really only to listen to it...Wasn’t much of a music buff...


47 posted on 11/03/2022 6:56:58 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

New this fall on ABC - Greta Thunberg stars in “How Dare You!” a one-hour show where Greta is stuck in a temporal vortex where she rants “how dare you” for eternity.


48 posted on 11/03/2022 6:57:30 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Larry Lucido

Bigger than US Steel, in fact.


49 posted on 11/03/2022 6:58:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: logi_cal869

Exactly it is in many movies and shows.


50 posted on 11/03/2022 6:58:34 AM PDT by pas
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To: logi_cal869

No, just commenting on the line you put in...

The left is definitely more organized than we are...


51 posted on 11/03/2022 6:59:39 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

;-)


52 posted on 11/03/2022 7:00:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gilligan’s island is a good example of low carbon foot print.
They didn’t even have private jets..several mansions..computers ..or cell phones..


53 posted on 11/03/2022 7:00:51 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Climate change” equals WEATHER!

Always had “weather”, always will.

Sometimes its good, sometimes its bad (ice ages).

Fallacy #1: Puny Hu-man can create climate change.

Fallacy #2: Puny Hu-mans can do ANYTHING about it.

The Erff is YUGE, the oceans are VAST.

We don’t and CAN’T control the sun. (thank GOD, literally)

Climate change, where is the PROOF? Where are the submerged cities? Where are the submerged islands? Where are the radical weather patterns THAT HAVEN’T HAPPENED BEFORE?

Why was the Great Barrier Reef on dry land for centuries?

Why are there ancient cave drawings in the deserts of Africa of wildlife and FISH? How could they even know about those to be able to draw them?

Solomon was a wise man.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.


54 posted on 11/03/2022 7:01:42 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: hinckley buzzard

Needs a haircut.


55 posted on 11/03/2022 7:04:07 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming crap will get me to turn it off even faster than dudes kissing.


56 posted on 11/03/2022 7:06:26 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s because they want to make at least some money.


57 posted on 11/03/2022 7:07:43 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate stories are a threat to democracy.


58 posted on 11/03/2022 7:08:26 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nothing but Big Brother BS from now on.


59 posted on 11/03/2022 7:08:53 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: CharlesOConnell
Tree huggers should never cease exploring the forest for
new trees to hug and searching for plastic to be recycled.
However, they should consider accomplishing their tasks more
quietly.
60 posted on 11/03/2022 7:09:33 AM PDT by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document Unlike any other.)
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