Celebrities to urge climate action at Hollywood gathering

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Fewer than 3% of the 37,000 TV and film scripts made since 2016 mentioned “any climate-related keywords'. Read more at straitstimes.com.

LOS ANGELES - Stars including Jane Fonda and the Oscar-winning directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once will urge the entertainment industry to tackle climate change head-on at a summit in Los Angeles this week.

Yet a recent study by the Norman Lear Centre and Good Energy found the climate crisis was “virtually non-existent” in scripted entertainment. The summit sees Abbott Elementary star Quinta Brunson join Everything Everywhere directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert in a keynote discussion, before Fonda calls on the industry to battle new fossil fuel developments in California.

Ms Fipps said recent hit series including Succession and The Sex Lives of College Girls have shown that writers can confront climate change by “poking fun” or “punching up” at those responsible, rather than being entirely gloomy.

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