Why Sienna Miller and Scott Z. Burns made a climate-catastrophe show

为什么西耶娜·米勒和斯科特·Z·伯恩斯制作气候灾难节目

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2023-04-21

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What would a future look like where climate change has become a truly unavoidable part of all of our daily lives? This is one of the questions the new Apple TV+ show Extrapolations tries to answer. Series creator Scott Z. Burns was a producer of the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the writer behind the eerily prescient 2011 film Contagion, about a global pandemic. Burns, along with one of the stars of the series, Sienna Miller, spoke with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu about the making of Extrapolations — and how dystopian portrayals of the future can mobilize and motivate people to take serious action.
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  • Today imagining the worst of a climate ravaged future to inspire more action in the present we are already seeing the devastating effects of a warming planet.

  • Enormous wildfires, thick air pollution, floods, famine and mass displacement.

  • A recent UN report found we're on track to see global average temperatures increase by as much as 2.9 degrees Celsius by the year 2100.

  • That means unless we take drastic action on a global scale, the effects will only become more intense and more pervasive.

  • And we can look to the science and understand it in theory, but it can be hard to wrap your mind around.

  • What would it actually look like if the consequences of climate change played a huge part in every single person's daily life?

  • If the problem becomes so massive, so unignorable?

  • These are some of the questions the new Apple TV show Extrapolations tries to answer.