This essay endeavours to explore the question of how environmental impact within an animated landscape is able to affect people’s general understanding of the current and future climate crisis, what are the best ways in which this can be displayed, along with whether a more positive or negative display of the possible future of humanity and its connection with nature is more or less effective than the other.
Climate Change, with its “possibly catastrophic consequences for humanity” (Gabric, 2023), has only recently garnered significant attention at the forefront of factual media, despite climate scientists warning of its impacts for decades. This in turn is one of the reasons various studios have also become interested in how the creative media field, and notably that of animation, can begin exploring said impacts of environmental damage. This in itself invites the questions that are discussed in this essay. Firstly, how does the topic of environmental impact within an animated landscape affect peoples’ general understanding of the current, and future, climate crisis? As a consequence, how are environmental issues best displayed, essentially whether a more positive or negative display of the possible future of humanity and its connection with nature is more or less effective than the other?
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