Episode 68: Everything Is Literally on Fire 🔥🌎🥵
Kevin Costner and Jeanne Tripplehorn have just discovered that even Waterworld can catch fire!
Fires. Floods. Heat waves. Zoonotic disease. The climate is changing. But are we going to change with it and survive? And how can storytelling help us understand our impact on the planet? We're talking about the disaster movie that is our lives with environmental journalist Maddie Stone.
Notes, citations, & etc.!
Waterworld, dir. Kevin Reynolds
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, by Annalee Newitz, a book about surviving climate disaster
How air conditioning could keep us cool without cooking the planet, by Maddie Stone
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (AKA Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster)
Why science fiction authors need to be writing about climate change right now, by Charlie Jane Anders
Broken Earth trilogy, by N.K. Jemisin
Southern Reach Trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer
Dune (1984 movie by David Lynch)
Here’s a good explainer about ecofascism
Thanos is a Malthusian bad guy in the Avengers movies
The Population Bomb was a book that spurred fears of overpopulation
The Rifters trilogy by Peter Watts
Solarpunk is a new movement for environmentalist science fiction