Earth Week with WBUR is a week long series of events on the environment and climate change leading up to Earth Day (April 22, 2023). Join them for conversations, performances and more, focused on celebrating and protecting our planet. On Friday, April 21, at WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, and online, join Ben Brock Johnson and panelists including Samantha Montano — author of Disasterology: Dispatches from The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis and assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Hollywood is full of big screen metaphors and on-the-nose cliches about climate change. And it turns out audiences love a disaster flick, from world-ending meteor strikes to the next ice age or even the mysterious switching of the planet’s polarity.
But IN A WORLD… where we actually need to talk about the real issues we’re facing, can disaster movies help? Join Endless Thread podcast co-host Ben Brock Johnson and the WBUR Podcasts team for a night of absurdity, fun and some real discussion of what our blockbuster movie industry has gotten wrong—and right—about the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced.
You will have the power to choose which decisions we make to stop a world-ending climate threat inspired by scenes from our favorite disaster films. Along the way, we’ll check in with a panel of experts who will help us understand if any of these events could ever happen and, if so, how we can navigate the real future. Tickets are $5 – $25. Buy tickets at www.wbur.org
