![]() An Inconvenient Truth catapulted climate change to mainstream awareness in the 2000s that even South Park spoofed it (and later conceded it was wrong), but Burns felt more could be done. The playwright turned filmmaker produced Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth before writing 2011’s Contagion, which found eerie relevance during Covid-19. Over eight loosely-connected episodes, Extrapolations spans a period of 33 years (from 2037 to 2070) and zeroes in on a diverse fabric of people impacted by warming temperatures, toxic air, and rising sea levels.įrom a Jewish community in a flooded Miami to smugglers in overheated India - and the scheming, shadowy billionaires who leave the biggest footprints among all of us - Extrapolations is half- Black Mirror, half-Isaac Asimov’s Foundations, all of it a foreboding look at our immediate future.īurns has been here before. But by bringing it up, maybe we create a path to find it.”Įxtrapolations, premiering on Apple’s streaming platform today, is a speculative sci-fi drama with a star-studded cast - Kit Harington, Meryl Streep, Tobey Maguire, Edward Norton, Daveed Digs, and more make up the ensemble - that is rooted in the real consequences of climate change. There is no choice for a Zoom that is net zero. “You can’t let the suggestion of hypocrisy stop you from engaging with the issue. ![]() He name-drops environmental advocate Bill McKibben, a consultant on Extrapolations, who imparted to him holistic wisdom about life in a climate crisis. “One of the ways I think about this is: We live in states where there has been gerrymandering, but it’s a good thing to vote,” creator Scott Z. Burns, producers Dorothy Fortenberry and Michael Ellenberg, and actors Indira Varma and Tahar Rahim, everything is worth getting the message across. How sincere can Extrapolations really be in its depiction of a future succumbing climate change? To creator Scott Z. It’s ironic, then, that Inverse met the showrunners and stars of the eco-conscious Apple TV+ drama Extrapolations over Zoom. ![]() It doesn’t help that Zoom video calls and streaming video, adopted en masse in social distancing, leave their own carbon footprints. Even when the Covid-19 pandemic lead to a plummet of pollution levels, NASA found in January 2021 that 2020 was tied as the warmest year on record. ![]()
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