Week 6

 This week I watched Damon Gameau's documentary called 2040.

It basically rehashed everything I had seen or was aware of in other environmental future media:

1. Drawdown author and the content within the Drawdown book appeared to be a major source of inspiration for the film and there were large chunks of the film where Gameau was sitting on the CGI wind turbine discussing subject matter that appears in the Drawdown book.
2. Self driving cars and shared transport
3. Soil
4. Circular economies
5. Waste management

I took note of the names of some of the economists.

I've also just stumbled upon this resource:

https://time.com/5669022/climate-change-2050/

Playwriting

I'm thinking about how tight I need to write to meet the 2000 word limit and the research plan is asking me to specify audience and demographic and where it will be published. 

This issue with a play is that most publishers apparently will not consider a play unless it has been staged so I guess that means the movement of the characters needs to be tested in a theatre somewhere.

https://www.languagehumanities.org/how-do-i-write-a-one-act-play.htm

https://www.scribd.com/document/483498030/ELEMENTS-OF-DRAMA-and-the-ONE-ACT-PLAY#

To Read

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/09/climate-change-sci-fi-authors-global-crisis-atwood-mccarthy

The Coral Bones

She cites Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were as examples of authors using climate change “to paint a grim picture of where, should the inertia of humanity to change their destructive actions continue, it will lead to a future that none of us want”.