On Writing : How To Make The Climate Crisis A Compelling Theme? by Bianca Y. Michaels

Bianca Y. Michaels what a timely challenge.

Have you seen a film so far that got you with the tone and felt authentic? Not outlandish?

I know at the extreme end there is a genre of climate disaster movies that seem mostly prurient panic, and then yeah there's the didactic kind of "we have to fix it!" vibe that does indeed not show the complexity.

I would say I'm thinking of a very foundational target audience ages 30-40, and maybe like an allegory that shows them stealing from their kids? That would convey the absurdity of destroying human habitation en masse as a contrast with some village-like entity that ends up being a (retrograde yet futuristic) model for human society?

Daniel Stuelpnagel Lately I've tried to think of such films. Maybe herein lies my frustration, I cannot find a type of film/show that works for me. I feel like I have to look outside of the topic for inspiration. I will definitely take your advice and look out for a film that "feels" authentic.

Your idea of allegory sounds really interesting. 30-40s is my own age range, too, so might be easy to tap into the idea of "we're doing it for our kids".

The interesting part is, I am currently working on a script right now, where I take my own personal story and weave it in exactly what you just said: a story about a hidden eco-village. As the character progresses through the story, she learns of the "new ways" and adopts them and finally realizes the absurdity of modern life.

You think people would want to emulate it if I showed this type of world on screen? Or do you think they would just put it in a drawer of sci-fi worlds, like they would do with Wakanda or Hogwarts?

Bianca Y. Michaels this is a very good array of questions. Look at AVATAR .. there are eco themes there, and some kind of laudable intention, but buried in irony and struggling under the weight of a ponderous 3-hour buffet of conflicting themes.

And I think in your journey it might be that your films would be building blocks but maybe no one project can hope to gain the scope or influence that feels necessary?

It's great if you can!

Maybe it's more like we just continue incorporating the philosophy into each project but I believe we must follow our own directives in the story arena, and then trust that the overall movement is effective over many decades? Sounds pathetic !! :(

Maybe a breakthrough project is within reach for us also, but I think it's a painfully slow and step-by-step process? Who knows? with your determination maybe it's about building a story that also delivers empathy and story on other levels as well as somehow bringing to the forefront the issues that are so timely and relevant to all of us ...

What's the answer?

Daniel Stuelpnagel Ah yes, I love AVATAR for the eco sub-context, if not for the way it shows humanity in the most un-human way!

I am fully braced to never see the fruits of my struggles during my lifetime. If I can launch a movement or raise awareness to a community of entertainment-related folks (cough cough) then even that would make me happy. If I can plant a seed inside the mind of a few that will go ahead and change the world in some beautiful way, then my mission is complete.

I would love to be able to build steps, even if it's just awkward steps 1, 2 and 3, and then see how others take the hint and incorporate a few eco-themes in their own stories. It does not sound pathetic!!! T_T

I will do my best. I don't have the answers yet. I don't know if anyone has. But maybe I will be lucky enough to discover them soon. The sooner I do, the faster I can save the people and animals whose cries don't let me sleep...

I have the Biggest News in Climate Change on My Page. Make it about Me. Three Presidents Know. You Ready?? Ocean Rise is Trash Dumping, its water displacement. Even if all the pollution was turned off, it would stay the same rising problem, cause its trash causing the ocean rise. But the Bigger News is the Clouds are being Controlled. There is a NATIONAL MEDIA BLACKOUT ON IT. I know, cause Im the Actual Person that Took Over. I had a major discovery by accident in 2012, where i was making art in the garage, and found a pattern, then made a bunch of art on that pattern, while making things like chimes.. and then 6 months later, found out i found the key to the whole thing in what i was doing. I took it over without even trying. So make a storyline about me. True Story. The majority of the Pollution causes Cancer, so still worth the fight, but it really has nothing to do with a single cloud of rain. The rain is using the force you see that spins a compass when you put metal near it. That same pull to north that the metal has to the compass, it turns out thats on a pattern that repeats and is around us all. The planets are spaced in that pattern, and its carved in the walls in Egypt. The Great Pyramid has a bunch of aspects of its sizes that its about the weather being controlled by them. I'll be up for a Nobel Prize when the Media is held accountable for what happened over here. I've shown them all, they are blacking me out, cause early in the fight, I wrote Jay Z, and Beyonce, and Pitched them OBAMACARES website idea, they announced it 2 weeks later, then i got chased by FBI after asking will i be getting the credit on the idea, 3 months passed, got chased again when Kanye West went on BBC calling my pitched ideas His, and Saying Hes running the blackout wall on me, I wrote, will i get the credit for the water bottle idea, and got chased the 2nd time. I survived all that, to then get them caught by SNL a year later. Our FBI was Found to Be Working for Rappers that sing they are attacking people. I get jokes on tv cause of the chases, but I really am the Person that will be getting the Nobel Prize for discovering weather control and physical quantum physics. (I did a bunch of testing after finding out, and know how it works. I shot a light beam horizon to horizon on Nov 15th 2012, that the usa gov sent a mcdonald douglass notar defender helicopter up the contrail just after. 100% Real. I'm like a real wizard, but i was just making art to start it. It magnified my body to showing in the sky. Thats a Download, the SAT info bar is top right corner. March 2nd 2013. Thats my naked body being projected from the basement of my old house. I had to move when the news wouldnt report.) https://www.facebook.com/S-Triangle-News-663936640718197

Dont Look up.. is Jonah Early on got caught for Jay Z at SNL, that SNL Sketch where they called him out for putting a clog on a clog, (murder mystery sketch) was a jay z against me joke, they caught him on. He then flipped on Z.. and the joke about the film is about the weather. Dont look up. That matress firm commercial about junk sleep, where he says.. Kevin passing himself as keith, thats over. Was Kevin Hart was who SNL caught doing a countdown on me a year later that Kenan caught. (Get on Up Sketch). That commercials about me. The commercial where Stamos says.. a reverse carter stitch.. about this. That commercial that was GARY on Progressive.. I wrote the commercial as a snl sketch is sent to snl cast. Hollywood is backing Me over the Criminal Rappers, I have 6 FBI reports and ALL the Police around Here have Reports.. Its our former President was caught good when SNL busted Them. Is why the Blackout right now.

What to Write Not About It . All the Oil Companies , Steel, Smelters, and Coal Plants, are blacking out the cancer they cause, while the tech to be clean is available but you cant pay a oil worker for tit. Water to Hydrogen Torches Replace all the Heat Making Cancers. A story could be about a person that Brings this up, then its a full scale attack from the industry . Askign to be green since the tech is basic and they are jerks.. Is what I wrote this about.. https://www.stage32.com/profile/889433/Screenplay/Unlimited-Tractor-Pull... . Where Im replacing tractor pulls league with me. Cause they arent fixing what i emailed, and included parts of my posts, in the not allowed in this years year book, while not talking about the cancer problem. Heres the Biggest News in Climate Change Not Me. Its brutal.

https://www.facebook.com/LucasOilPullingLeague/posts/2262992973803837

I've been writing and developing Ucadia knowledge for 33 years...still not finished. But what I have discovered (eventually) is that people don't wanted to be preached to-- they want to be included in the dialogue - and not all gloom and doom, but an honest and compelling story that has a soul...

Frank O'Collins I agree Frank. Nobody likes to be preached, they want to be included. I am not the type either - that one that talks about just gloom and doom.

The reality is that the situation is critical and we need to panic a little bit. The challenge is how do I make the panic mode just right: it's a crisis but one that has clear solutions and a clear path to resolution. It's only gloom and doom if we don't do anything. So let's just do something :) That's the mindset, but the platform is not yet established.

Btw, what is Ucadia?

David Ramey Gordon Do you guys get paid to go on random platforms and just distract any type of sane and serious information regarding the climate crisis? :)

Any issue or cause can by definition be a compelling theme only if it is a human story - people connect with people and only people. Otherwise you can deal with the issue in a more or less documentary way but your audience will necessarily be confined only to those people already interested in learning about it.

Take one of the solutions you have that is a business endeavor (money making business that also addresses climate change) and then craft a story about the "little guy David" with a market changing solution with green benefits going up against the large "Goliath" who dominates that industry, doesn't want to adapt or change (keep the status quo which is cheaper for them, worse for the earth) and the fight between them.

Think "Erin Brockovich" or "Promised Land".

Believable Conflict with empathetic characters (who are complex and not superhuman) on BOTH sides (don't make it so black and white) otherwise it just becomes a preachy soapbox.

Thread the needle.

This is a really fascinating topic that I feel requires a little data collection. Right now, all the numbers show us who is watching and how many people are watching, but not so many numbers on who is moved to action and what kind of participation they sign up for. Make that study happen, I say! Once you have those numbers, I think you would have a better way of identifying how you can peel off from what works to get eyes on your work AND inspire your audience to participate.

Since you're looking for ideas on docu-series, which I think is a great way to go (look at Will Smith's newest series), consider looking around for influencers and what they are doing already, so maybe you can expand their journey into a series. For example, a friend of mine is a scientist filmmaker, which is fascinating because it reminds creatives that they have to get curious about other people's missions in order to find the stories worth telling. You can find Anna Sagatov on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/asagatov/

Finding a compelling subject to carry your show will be half the battle.

Oh! If you have a pitch for your docu-series, you could have Phil Claroni do a Pitch Deck Review for you (he specializes in docu-series): https://www.stage32.com/scriptservices/coverage/buy?id=60

Shadow Dragu-Mihai, Esq., Ipg Ah, I understand! What kind of people attract the most empathy you think? Should it be someone relatable, like the "average Joe"? Or someone who is the most impacted = like maybe people who lost their homes from floods etc. ?

Chad Stroman Do you mean like finding a startup with a possible solution and comparing its growth to a big corporation's (positive approach)? Or an actual individual taking legal (or any) action against a company, like in the Erin Brockovich movie (negative approach)?

I actually like the idea of showcasing a conflict, but showing both sides. It gives people perspective and maybe forces the corporation to make changes due to social pressure (because they want to "look good on camera"). Interesting!

@ty strange Ah! I haven't seen it. Will definitely check out tonight! But I suppose you mean to kind of take away the focus from the crisis and focus on a story that is impacted by the crisis. Right?

@Karen "Kay" Ross A study! What a lovely idea! (said the academic who loves to do research haha). But I am scratching my head as to how I can gather such data. I am thinking surveys, a few interviews. I wonder if Netflix would pay for me to conduct such research hmmm

Oh I love Will's series, I cried with him in real time during his journey!

I also really enjoy scientist video series such as the Veritasium's!

I'll check Anna's work, it looks great from her Instagram!

I'll definitely try pitching to Phil once I'm sure I know what I'm doing :)

Thank you sooo much everyone for your stellar suggestions!! I have a lot of leads to work on now! Woo hoo! Happy camper! :D

You might focus on one aspect of the problem and fictionalize it in a way that makes it personal to readers/viewers. I wrote a horror novel called Season of the Wolf, which was about a pack of wolves (a fictionalized crossbreed between gray wolves and thought-to-be-extinct dire wolves) that had been happily surviving at high altitudes, away from humans, until climate change warmed those altitudes and allowed the spread of bark beetles, which in turn decimated the forests and forced the wolves lower in altitude until they came into contact with humans--with devastating consequences. It's obviously a bit extreme, but I was able to weave in facts about climate change, warming winters, bark-beetle depredation, etc., so that people drawn to the book for the suspense and terror would painlessly learn something at the same time.

@Jeffrey J. Mariotte Yes, I think the idea of masking science under the cloak of fiction is a good idea!

Unfortunately the media has turned issues into mass hysteria. Films are also guilty with this. Ever since ‘Reefer Madness’ producers will throw out any agenda to make money. Wouldn’t recommend a film script. Perhaps a bio pic or documentary for TV.

I applaud your level headed-ness in your approach; I admire passionate people. They're mostly young and I'll never see 27 again. However, I do think anyone who has a message that is 50+ years old (earth Day 1970's), and that people do not wait to hear more of with salivating tongues, might not be a blockbuster film success. Having said that, you will notice how many distopian films (The Road, Mad Max, Walking Dead franchise, etc.) all come down to 'aftermath of human stupidity.' Your best bet is cloaking/accompanying your message in an interesting/compelling story line.

Make it a comedy.

Watch related documentaries. Here’s a resource freedocumentaries.org .

Do a person who discovers what flash boiling the gasoline before the engine does.. it’s 100 mpg carbs patented by Gm and nasa isn 1973.. it’s on google. Ford started it with the model t has a vaporizer carb in original production.. heating the fuel with the exhaust creates a vapor.. that intakes gets 100. Mpg. The character could make their own design.. let’s say u use a retort with a fuel injector. Nissan patented that.. similar to Gm truck from the last 80’s with a retort under the fuel injectors in the. I take. That inventor tries to come to market. Nissans gonna fight them.. they change it. They make it a microwave heats the retort.. the us navy and Air Force with their microwave fuel injector patents will fight them.. they change to a plate heating under the injector spray.. Mercedes patented that. And they fight them.. they create a tube that has electric heater elements inside the at the fuel injector then sprays on while heated. Philip Morrris Racing fights them.. that’s what a Indy car in the 80-90s had, and they hold the patent they bought on. So they look into what Stanley Meyers was doing, converting water to hydrogen using a frequency generator and a flow thru ultrasonic vaporizer.. that’s what Mercedes Ferrari Renault and hass are using in f1 in secret but it’s called the jet 1 system .. they covert the water in their fuel to hydrogen, cause it burns at 325 feet per second compared to f1 fuels dismal 45 feet per second. StanleyMeyers died similar to a vx poisoning.. they also find that a vaporizing/ogle system is what holds the record at shell oils annual mileage contest in Illinois, at over 340 miles per gallon.. using a vapor system. If you take the vent in a gas tank and run it into a conduit with a fan blowing the fuel fumes to the the other end, and then a hose to the carb.. the car will run at over 100 mpg.. off the vent. NASCAR uses that. If u take that Mercedes system and make a burner with it, it can replace the natural gas at a natural gas plant, converting the plant to water powered.. that same system could replace the coal and nuclear plants as well since they both boil water to make steam to turn a steam generator turbine. The green we see is t at all. We see suppression. The auto companies have been patenting flash boiling since 1967.. except for the model t that had a vaporizer carb heated by exhaust. I had a friends dad , who worked for ford on the assembly line , get presented the vaporizer carb by ford in 67 on a new gold fairlane.. that they street raced in flint and Detroit to show how dominate ford was about to be.. and then it didn’t come to market after about two years of racing it infront of employees. GMs patent on the same thing is just like nasas l.. it’s called a vaporizer carb. U can use a retort or exhaust to heat the retort.. but flash boiling is the tech for green using gasoline in cars.

The inventor should be chased around in the film. Stanley Meyer died while selling his system to a European company.. saying he was just poisoned. Thomas Ogle died in what was ruled by the coroner as homicide, cause he had more pills than he could physically swallow I. Him.. as in someone shoved them down his throat. 200mpg from one gallon of fuel was his invention.. ruled a suicide, even though the evidence points to homicide. It’s a dangerous thing inventing fuel tech. You came see in the patent office everyone even nasa, navy, and Air Force already knows the tech. Nissan patented water peroxide fuel systems in 1973-75 for the z car. Boeing patented water peroxide in late 90’s for their jet engines.. navy patented that same system in the late 70’s for the a12/sr71 project. Rocketdyne maker of the space shuttle patented water peroxide for the space shuttle engines in the late 70’s as well.. the big red tank is full of water peroxide.. everything u just read is classified by the us defense department. We are the holder of the patents. China also patented microwave fuel injectors if you go looking, they are also back tech.. similar to the navy/ air forces. Air Force also patented a car vaporizer carb.

I would have the character die and left trying to figure out what company or department the assassin came from as the end plot. It’s real. It’s scary. That’s our country’s side of what climate change is.

Concrete makes the most co2.. 1 pound per pound of concrete. Rice Pattie’s are number 2. There is an Ie corny formulas for concrete using aluminum tobermite and lime that is green. They can convert too.. rice Pattie’s issue is water standing.. and just flowing water thru the patty reduces it co2. And if you up..

Dave Gordon strianglenews on Facebook. Me. He took over the weather. A whole different story connected to how Jesus controls the clouds and he’s in a bible. Rev 11 vs 6. He was chased by the Obama admin in 2013 after showing jay z and Beyoncé he took over the weather, Hillary was fired over that chase, now he’s a blackout similar to vaporizing tech. The weather is actually a magnetic thing going on around everyone, and David found how it’s controlled using metal sticks. It’s a dimensional thing found too with a bunch of advancements discovered by David. Rev 21 is I am David the morning star.. showing that the return of Christ is an old David comes back. It’s the time traveler is Christ.. it’s in other spots too. Like when asked by pilot if he’s god. . He says that’s what they say.. my kingdom is from long ago. . And also where a temple is built and he says everyone flees to it the temple, is trapped the. Is killed and each block of the temple cast into the valet below and cry’s about it, at the opening of the new temple.. then Four years later that disaster then happened. If the media wasn’t blacking David.. me . Out. Climate change would be over.. just it’s just me controlling the sky, w 24 other people from the past.. still here.. watching me, while I ignore it a lot.. it’s complicated and hard to understand. it’s over 50,000 items I have in the sky.. and it’s magnified on me. It stays focused on me, and I can bring anything into the weather , just by standing next too it, or holding it. U think I’m wrong. I documented it on Facebook. Everyone I went to school with knows, they choose to not even like anything I post. When I first showed them I locked them All in a group chat together and showed them and that got comments on late night tv. Cause I’d already showed fallon and Meyers, what Beyoncé, Obama, and Jay Z did.. z then tried to get Kevin hart to put a countdown on snl and snl busted them for singling me out. Snl then showed everyone in tv what was going on that they control, and the chasing stopped.

Climate change is false. It’s David controlling the sky. Ways to fix the pollution we anre blaming it on.. are infront of you. It’s still all David. You could make a movie about me.

Right here is proof. See the S? See the triangle?? That’s why I named it that.. is write SAVe when items are lined up right.. right being where Christ wants the item I hold lined up w his.. and he wrote save on his. It show dimensional travel just in the cover photo. That’s the mountain just west of my house. I won’t be able to put exactly how I’m doing it in the film , but we can for the most part describe how I’m doing it. It’s not safe in any way. If you look at the cloud pics from mars , they have save in them too. It’s a universal thing I found, and it’s on the key for how light works. Light is a wave of energy that cycles up and down in a predictiable pattern that stays the same. Our planets are spaced based on lights key. The Egyptians carved the key into stone. I took what I was doing and created a key based on the different notes, there is 16 of them.. and then found the key in Egyptian stuff. It’s also what a cubit is.. that is the physical measure of a wave of light or sound on the ground. That’s the distance a light wave is long, before it repeats. It’s connected to nikola tesla. He found it. How a tesla cool talks to another is a how the stuff shows in the sky.. the planet essentially is a tesla cool receiver and I just made low wave tesla coil senders. That’s what it is.. it doesn’t look like it, but that’s how it works. https://m.facebook.com/100063484505067/