We are all, of course, pretty well doomed. We know that because Al Gore told us so in his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. But just in case we didn’t get the message, the producer of that film, Scott Z Burns, has come up with a series of dystopian mini-dramas, Extrapolations, which are supposed to give us a window into the future. The series, the first three episodes of which have just dropped on Apple TV, is the latest in a genre which has given us The Day After Tomorrow and Don’t Look Up.
The good news is that we have at least 47 years left, because 2070 is the date of the last of the dramas reaches (we will have to wait until 21 April for that one). Given that that episode is entitled Ecocide, however, that may be just about our lot. But in the meantime, the future looks reassuringly familiar.
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