In our BBC flick TRUE LOVE AND WORMHOLES our main character Maggie, played by the mindblowingly talented
@anjvasan has climate anxiety. This is a real thing, I think I have it too, but I do not want ‘anxiety’ to inhibit my agency to do something meaningful. When Craig, played by the ground shaking presence of
@coreymylchreest , really the ground shakes when he walks in the room… anyway when Craig arrives on the scene, they, Craig and Maggie, begin to make a plan to do something to save the planet. Alone we are anxious and isolated, but together we have power.
While corporate overlords play God with our natural resources and the 1% with their super yachts and private jets fly about willy nilly to their multiple houses with multiple fridge-freezes all running all the time (I think about the fridge-freezers a lot for some reason!) I am diligently washing out my tin cans and growing salad, and not going to see my sister, who lives in the USA (I’ve considered getting a boat, apparently David Bowie refused to fly and would get a boat), and getting the train, and buying local, and not buying new clothes… My inner child can’t square that circle, and my responsible adult is angry at not having answers. I don't want ai and data centres! I prefer spelling errors and clean water. I want the old trees to be left alone. Currently, there are 410 climate protests going on in over 120 countries (source: Climate Protest Tracker). Right now, old-growth forests are being felled, not just in one country, but across nearly every remaining “big forest frontier.” The USA, Tasmania, Canada (especially British Columbia) to name a few.
Leaders across the board are failing us, our planet, and our children. A living old-growth forest has unfathomable ecological value in our battle against climate catastrophe, but that value only shows up in the markets, when they are felled! A logged forest produces immediate cash. An intact forest produces cleaner air, stable rainfall, biodiversity, and long-term carbon storage. What is more important? If you would like to support my work in bringing climate stories to screen then you can back me on Patreon link in bio. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
