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Fighting Climate Change with Feeling

The 2022 Redford Center Stories film challenge winners believe emotions are the key to get people excited about the environment. The post Fighting Climate Change with Feeling appeared first on Nautilus.

Climate change is undeniable. From increasingly frequent extreme weather events to shrinking ice sheets, we can see what is going wrong in nature. But do the facts incite us to action? J.B. Brown and Piper Lucky, winners of the 2022 Redford Center Stories film-making competition, take another tack. A paean to the green world of biology, their mesmerizing film “Envious”  touches on the physical realities of nature—but it feels like a love song. “Envious” appeals to the heart first, brain second.

The Redford Center caught up with Brown and Lucky recently to talk about their film.

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