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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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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0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Shimita. |
0:02.0 | Before we get to the show, I have a favor to ask. |
0:05.0 | On an upcoming episode of In-Conversation, we're going to be talking about couples therapy. |
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0:39.8 | This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemeeth Abasu. Today, |
0:48.6 | imagining the worst of a climate-ravaged future to inspire more action in the present. |
1:08.0 | We are already seeing the devastating effects of a warming planet. Enormous wildfires, thick air pollution, floods, famine, and mass displacement. |
1:14.8 | A recent UN report found were on track to see global average temperatures increase by |
1:20.0 | as much as 2.9 degrees Celsius by the year 2100. That means unless we take |
1:26.9 | drastic action on a global scale, the effects will only become more intense and more pervasive. |
1:35.0 | And we can look to the science and understand it in theory, but it can be hard to wrap your |
1:39.6 | mind around. |
1:41.3 | What would it actually look like if the consequences of climate change played a huge |
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