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Podcast: The Climate Question
Episode: Is science fiction holding back climate action?
Description: For centuries, we’ve been reading, watching and listening to science fiction. And all too often, it’s pretty pessimistic about our future, especially when it touches on the topic of climate change.
This is leading some to ask whether these doom and gloom stories are doing the climate fight more harm than good - causing us to feel so anxious and powerless that we don’t take action.
So for this week's climate question, Graihagh Jackson is asking: Is sci-fi holding us back?
First broadcast on 5th April 2021.
Graihagh Jackson is joined by:
Amy Brady, editor-in-chief of the Chicag...