When Words Aren’t Enough: The Visual Climate Story

Climate One

Social Sciences, Science, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences

4.7 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Guests: Céline Cousteau, Explorer and Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, Director, An Inconvenient Truth; Founder, Concordia Studio Cristina Mittermeier, National Geographic Photographer; Co-Founder, SeaLegacy While IPCC risk assessments and emission projections can help us understand climate change, they don’t exactly inspire the imagination or provoke a personal response to the crisis. But a growing league of storytellers is using photographs, films and the human experience to breathe life into the cerebral science of climate change and conservation. “It's not the blockbuster, big-splash film,” says explorer and filmmaker Céline Cousteau, “It's truth, it’s intimacy, and some of it is ugly and some of it is beautiful.” So how far can images and sound go to inspire a global climate response? Related Links: He Named Me Malala My Octopus Teacher SeaLegacy Tribes on the Edge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, time to get you pet insurance with pet jebity.
0:03.8	Pet jevity.
0:05.1	You know, like longevity, but for your pets long and healthy life?
0:08.4	They have no upper age limit for dogs or cats.
0:11.1	Meow!
0:11.9	They insure hundreds of thousands of pores and have 24-7 access to vet video calls.
0:17.7	Look for pet jevity wherever you shop online for insurance.
0:21.6	The vet video calls if your pet is in need of urgent medical assistance, contact your local
0:25.9	vet immediately. Visit petjavity.co.uk for full details.
0:31.3	How can films, photographs and the human experience convey the urgency of the climate story?
0:37.3	Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency,
0:41.2	the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary,
0:44.7	people who are in power and disempowered.
0:47.3	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:49.7	We always thought in Community Truth was a redemption story
0:52.3	about a politician who lost an election,
0:55.1	and it was his mission in life to tell this truth that he knew.
0:58.5	Davis Guggenheim is a writer, director, and producer.
1:01.5	His documentaries include he named me Malala, waiting for Superman,
1:05.0	and a certain Academy Award-winning film with former Vice President Al Gore.
1:09.9	As director of an Inconvenient truth, Davis learned that good climate storytelling requires
1:14.5	a delicate balance, a compelling character, and a path to action.
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