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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Sure. Go ahead — crash your ratings.
Maybe people just want to be entertained and not indoctrinated.
They’re too busy saying Guns Are Bad, Gay Is Good.
Everything should be all propaganda, all the time.
Guess I could be a tv show or movie then? 😎👍
No ... it’s not a problem. They’re in the entertainment business ... not the propaganda business.
Most TV shows are mindless comedies, crime shows or hospital shows. Would Fiends have Phoebe washed away by a six inch rise in the sea level in a very special episode? Maybe recycling latex gloves on Grey’s Anatomy?
Waterworld was a bomb.
Even Goebbels said that mixing propaganda with entertainment was a bad idea.
Because it understands that it is a scam and it doesn't sell, except to the far left fringe of society. If the industry thought it was profitable, it would be plastered across every TV show, no matter what the topic was.
Didn’t one of the old studio owners say, “If you want to send a message, use Western Union”?
Yeah, except it is bovine excrement.
No Blue Check for You!
Hey, SAMMY ROTH, get a clue.
“Climate change” = the weather. DUH!!!
What about “Singing in the Rain”? The title, the song, and the action during the song were all about the weather.
Or “If I wanted to be preached to, I’d go to Church”.
From reading what this Sammy Roth wrote, I wonder if he is out of the seventh grade yet????
You obviously never saw "A Clockwork Orange".
Didn't he sing for Van Halen?
Wow! Talk about telling the whole world that you're a cuck soiboi puzzlewit.
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