The climate apocalypse will be televised
A writer/producer of Apple TV+'s "Extrapolations" on the challenges and imperatives of dramatizing the climate crisis, and imagining a bleak future
April 10, 2023
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The climate apocalypse will be televised
Summary
Guest host Alissa Wilkinson talks with Dorothy Fortenberry, a co-showrunner, executive producer, and writer on Extrapolations, the new star-studded anthology series on Apple TV+ that imagines the ravages of climate change deeper and deeper into the future. Alissa and Dorothy discuss the challenges of making film and television about the climate crisis, the role that religion plays on the show and in addressing the emotional responses to climate change in our lives, and how climate change can rob us not only of our future — but of our past.
Host: Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie), senior culture writer, Vox
Guest: Dorothy Fortenberry (@Dorothy410berry), writer/executive producer, Extrapolations on Apple TV+
References:
Extrapolations on Apple TV+
"Laudato Si': On Care for our Common Home," encyclical of Pope Francis (May 24, 2015)
"A Review: The Lotus Paradox at Warehouse Theatre" (Jan. 31, 2022)
"Latin Mass, women priests, celibacy? Climate change will make all the church's arguments pointless" by Dorothy Fortenberry (America; Oct. 27, 2021)
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