Extrapolations is Apple TV's haunting, rage-inducing, totally necessary new series about climate change. “The guiding principle behind the timeline was, what if we just keep muddling forward as we are?” executive producer Dorothy Fortenberry said.
The year is 2047. Rabbi Marshall Zucker, portrayed by “Hamilton” star Daveed Diggs, is scrambling to secure funds to keep his congregation safe as rising ocean waters flood the pews of their Miami synagogue. Then an intense hurricane hits, a sea wall breaks and Diggs must rush to save the Torah scroll, putting his own life at risk as Miami is ravaged by the storm...
“The guiding principle behind the timeline was, what if we just keep muddling forward as we are?” Fortenberry said.about a report finding just 2.8% of more than 37,000 film and TV scripts from 2016 through 2020 included any mention of climate change, or a list of related terms. USC researchers reported that the word “dog” was mentioned almost 13 times as often as all 36 climate keywords put together.
Not really, he said. But he is surprised and frustrated that more filmmakers haven’t started telling climate stories.asked him, “Why is there an infinite number of cop shows and hospital shows and lawyer shows? Why aren’t there more shows that put climate change front and center?” An X-wing from the “Star Wars” universe flies alongside a Bolt EUV in a Chevrolet electric vehicle ad that first aired in 2021.
The show’s writers had no choice but to make some educated guesses about how the effects of rising temperatures might play out over the coming decades. They did consult with experts, though, including climate scientist Nicole Hernández Hammer, who studies sea level rise, and Columbia University neurologist Kiran T. Thakur, for an episode dealing with cognitive decline.
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