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"The philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch has prioritized donations to environmental
causes for more than a decade. She has, she said, a deep understanding of how
inhospitable the planet will become if climate change is not addressed. And she
and her colleagues have spent years trying to communicate that.
“We have been screaming,” she said. “But screaming only gets you so far.”
This was on a morning in early spring. Murdoch and Ari Wallach, an author,
producer and futurist, had just released their new PBS docuseries, “A Brief
History of the Future,” and had hopped onto a video call to promote it —
politely, no screaming required. Shot cinematically, in some never-ending
golden hour, the six-episode show follows Wallach around the world as he meets
with scientists, activists and the occasional artist and athlete, all of whom
are optimistic about the future. An episode might include a visit to a floating
village or a conversation about artificial intelligence with the musician
Grimes. In one sequence, marine biologists lovingly restore a rehabbed coral
polyp to a reef. The mood throughout is mellow, hopeful, even dreamy. Which is
deliberate.
“There’s room for screaming,” Wallach said. “And there’s room for dreaming.”
“A Brief History of the Future” joins some recent books and shows that offer a
rosier vision of what a world in the throes — or just past the throes — of
global catastrophe might look like. Climate optimism as opposed to climate
fatalism."
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