“Why aren’t filmmakers, novelists, TV shows – let’s even throw the news in there – addressing what is, I would say, the greatest threat in human history, right? I mean, if you look at it, the entire foundation of the civilisation we live in is the climate stability of the Holocene era. And we have now left the [Holocene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene). We are approaching the [Pleistocene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene) era, the time of woolly mammoths and giant sloths. And, if we don’t get our act together soon, we’ll go to the [Miocene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene), which, for anyone who doesn’t know, they should look it up, because it is not a place we want to be. How can it be that so many people are quiet about this?
“I think it relates to the reality that our culture is much more connected to our economy than we ever think it is. I think they are one and the same. I think culture is a byproduct of economy and self-interest. And, once you take in the enormity of rapid climate warming, it shatters so many of the foundations of our identity, of our community, of civilisation, of our achievements, our successes, our failures. Everything changes instantly.”
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“Why aren’t filmmakers, novelists, TV shows – let’s even throw the news in there – addressing what is, I would say, the greatest threat in human history, right? I mean, if you look at it, the entire foundation of the civilisation we live in is the climate stability of the Holocene era. And we have now left the [Holocene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene). We are approaching the [Pleistocene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene) era, the time of woolly mammoths and giant sloths. And, if we don’t get our act together soon, we’ll go to the [Miocene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene), which, for anyone who doesn’t know, they should look it up, because it is not a place we want to be. How can it be that so many people are quiet about this?
“I think it relates to the reality that our culture is much more connected to our economy than we ever think it is. I think they are one and the same. I think culture is a byproduct of economy and self-interest. And, once you take in the enormity of rapid climate warming, it shatters so many of the foundations of our identity, of our community, of civilisation, of our achievements, our successes, our failures. Everything changes instantly.”
Everyone is concerned about the bottomline!!