Filmmaker Statement

When you talk to most people about this stuff, even people who do not deny climate change or it's effects, they don't want to look into the abyss. They would rather go on with their lives, business as usual, with the assumption that the "end" will come suddenly and swiftly, with them having no way to affect the outcome of their personal lives. Either all life on Earth will be extinguished dramatically or we'll fix it with magical technology. We've been led to assume that a collapsing or post-collapse world is one not worth living in. That if climate change isn't reversible then there's no point preparing for it or caring, that it is meaningless. And so we shy away from having very important conversations with our friends and families. That's one of the fundamental aspects of the conversation I want to change - the wrongful idea that full acknowledgement of the effects of the climate crisis is defeatist. We can have hope without resorting to toxic optimism.