![]() They concluded that a cultural understanding, aided by popular culture, is critical to making the crisis feel more personal. “Climate change is of such a vast, abstract, and immense geographic and chronological scale that it remains wholly remote from most people’s day-to-day experience, even when living through direct manifestations of it,” researchers Theodore Jacob Vincent and James F. Pop culture comes with a prescient foresight, allowing us to see a grim future: one of ferocious storms, higher temperatures, droughts, fires, floods, extreme weather of all sorts - in India and beyond - endangering people and ecosystems, will look like. Climate crisis has existed at a distance, something that belongs far away, in time and distance. The clincher is, perhaps, that reel and real are now interchangeable. Depictions are becoming more realistic in how they show climate crisis (as something that is gradual and pernicious) plots are nuanced in showing the socio-cultural inequalities they establish the cause and effect of human activity to extinction or climate disasters with profound clarity. ![]() Although they make for an uncomfortable watch, these on-screen apocalypses have become an increasingly popular part of recent narratives. As are other science-fiction movies and shows loyally holding on to the climate catastrophe plot point. In a conversation, a character, Mobius, particularly notes how badly we, humans, have messed up the ecosystem. The verdict is damning: It’s “just one damn thing after another.” They figure in Marvel’s television series “Loki ,” which positions climate change front and center in one of its episodes. Events dated well into the future, but may as well be from this decade - even now. ![]() It is a disquieting laundry list - of famines, cyclones, volcanic eruptions, and more. The Climate Disaster of 2048, the eruption of the Krakatoa in 2049, the Extinction of the Swallow in 2050, the Tsunami of 2051.
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