The Day After Tomorrow: Why Cli-Fi Matters

In this climate change video essay, I briefly analyze The Day After Tomorrow and why disaster movies and Cli-Fi in general matter for climate action. I look at how climate change is depicted in the science fiction genre, and how we might come to use it to raise awareness about environmental issues.

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[MrDanbloom]

When Charlie Johnson decided to create a five-minute ''explainer'' video about the popular movie "The Day After Tomorrow, " he delved into the trailer archives of several Hollywood films and relied on a five-part ''Yale Climate Connections'' series of articles about Hollywood and cli-fi, written by George Washington University creative writing professor Michael Svoboda.The video he made has been titled "The Day After Tomrrow: Why Cli-Fi Matters" and it can be seen here on Youtube. The video narration offers viewers a brief analysis of the 2004 climate-themed movie ''The Day After Tomorrow'' and why Hollywood disaster movies and ''Cli-Fi'' in general matter for what Charlie refers to as ''climate action.''A very good magazine cover story from 2004 and titled "Surveying the Impact: The Day After Tomorrow, " via a pdf link about the movie is listed here.
Charlie's video is short and to the point, and he speaks directly to how cli-fi movies in the past and in the future can influence and impact the raging debate worldwide over what do to about runaway global warming and climate change. Countless newspaper and magazine articles are now debating the issues from all points of view and this Youtube video concept is a good way to explain things with film clips in living color. Somehow seeing these clips while listening to Charlie's observant narration makes for a very good ''visual.''
Not everything has to be in text these days. Sometimes, a well-produced video explainer can go a long way to reaching a wide audience worldwide. I certainly hope so in this case.

[gard]

I actually stopped mid way though the video just to watch the day after tomorrow

[gdot]

Well done bro, this film right now is so relevant to what is going on in 2020!! Scary shit (Climate change/global warming) if you ask me. Lets just hope we never get to where the movie got to, as well as the film 2012.

[MichaelKilmanAuthor]

Great short video essay! Perfect for an opening to a class discussion of clifi

[somewherelongago]

What I learn after watching The Day After Tomorrow: "Climate change comes, climate change goes"
But honestly though, the climate chanhe politics in that film is a mess

[ericoxner]

Yea this movie should leave one ti think on.Tornados have gotten stronger and stay on the ground longer AKA long track tornados.Hurticans seem to have gotten stronger as well.As a recent hurricane was weaken real strengthen before making landfall.I think it would do us well
to keep an eye out.And maybe take steps right now.

[theodorspielmann]

whats the tracks name in the beginning 0:04

[andydutton]

I thought aquaman was interesting because the king of the people who live in the seas was angry that people were trashing his oceans.

[royalwins]

So fear mongering propaganda basically?