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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.04,0:00:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disney’s Strange World is a colorful, \Nsometimes silly
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.58,0:00:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adventure through an exotic \Nalien landscape
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.80,0:00:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's definitely a movie that feels geared \Ntowards a younger audience
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.24,0:00:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that doesn't mean its message is\Nchildish or shallow
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.72,0:00:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To explain why, let’s jump to\Nthe halfway point in the story where
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.44,0:00:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we find our heroes have paused their journey\Nto play a board game called Primal Outpost
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.49,0:00:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: A little Primal Outpost?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.60,0:00:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s sort of a mashup of Magic The Gathering\Nand Settlers of Catan
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.86,0:00:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the goal isn’t to defeat monsters\Nor expand territory
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.90,0:00:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: A daemon spider!\NJaeger: Kill it!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.64,0:00:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: Ah ah the point is not to kill it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.96,0:00:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead the players are supposed to \Ncooperate to build a better world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.99,0:01:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: The objective of Primal Outpost is\Nto live harmoniously with your environment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.72,0:01:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That goal is also a distillation of\Nthe larger message of the movie
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.94,0:01:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no Disney villain to defeat. \NInstead the heroes must convince their society
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.14,0:01:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to abandon the fuel source that powers the\Ncomforts and conveniences of their daily lives
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.58,0:01:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before it destroys their world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.52,0:01:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as ecological parables go\Nthat’s a surprisingly radical one.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.71,0:01:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strange World's visuals are borrowed \Nfrom old pulp adventure magazines
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.36,0:01:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but its theme has much more in common\Nwith solar punk narratives.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.24,0:01:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solar punk is a relatively recent artistic,\Nliterary, and media trend
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.80,0:01:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that uses science fiction as a lens to tell\Nstories about regenerating ecosystems,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.30,0:01:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,futuristic permaculture farming, mutual\Naid networks, and sustainable urban living.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.18,0:02:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idyllic themes and visuals are evocative\Nof and often inspired by Studio Ghibli films
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.42,0:02:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that predate the term by decades,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.65,0:02:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially Castle In the Sky, Princess\NMononoke, and Nausicaa of the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.06,0:02:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Valley of the Wind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.00,0:02:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the moment, solar punk is less of a full\Nfledged genre in its own right, and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.02,0:02:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more of an aspirational idea of a genre. But\Nit's growing rapidly to now include video games.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.01,0:02:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Game narrator: Use toxin scrubbers to cleanse\Nthe soil and sea. Pumps and irrigators
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.28,0:02:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get clean water everywhere it needs to go,\Nallowing the natural greenery to grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.34,0:02:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My favorite example of works explicitly\Nwritten as part of the solar punk trend
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.56,0:02:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are a pair of novellas by Becky Chambers\Npublished as the Monk & Robot series.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.64,0:03:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At its core solar punk is an optimistic \Nreaction to the cynical dystopian narratives
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.37,0:03:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that saturate much of popular culture\Nwherein hyper-capitalism has thoroughly
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.75,0:03:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ruined the world in one terrible way\Nor another.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.00,0:03:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this point most of us have seen so many \Nspectacular global catastrophes that the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.17,0:03:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end of the world can start to feel both\Nmundane and inevitable.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.57,0:03:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Robot: You've seen one post-apocalyptic \Ncity, you've seen them all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.07,0:03:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might have run across a paraphrased version\Nof this oft quoted passage by author
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.99,0:03:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fredric Jameson from his 1994 book, \NThe Seeds of Time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.96,0:03:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It seems to be easier for us today to imagine\Nthe thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.70,0:03:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism..."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.03,0:03:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...perhaps that is due to some weakness\Nin our imagination."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.06,0:04:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd argue that failure of imagination is,\Nat least in part, the fault of an entertainment
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.51,0:04:05.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,industry that keeps churning out stories\Nset in neon-infused corporate dystopias
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.29,0:04:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and devastated post-apocalyptic landscapes,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.81,0:04:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the fate of the natural world has\Nalready been sealed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.04,0:04:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At their best dystopian stories can serve as\Nwarnings about the trajectory of our own world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.03,0:04:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ad Announcement: A new life awaits you in\Nthe off-world colony. The chance to begin
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.38,0:04:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again in a golden land of opportunity...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.68,0:04:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But bleak visions of the future have\Nbecome so ubiquitous
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.82,0:04:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so defanged of socioeconomic critique,\Nthat much of the genre
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.92,0:04:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been reduced to a series of \Nstylistic choices and narrative cliches.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.67,0:04:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From time to time, we do see fleeting glimpses\Nof possible better futures momentarily peeking
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.30,0:04:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through in otherwise dystopian settings...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.34,0:05:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vi: Is that a real tree?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.69,0:05:05.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ekko: Pretty cool huh? When I first saw it\NI knew this was the place.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.78,0:05:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ekko: If a single seed can male it down\Nhere, so could we.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.47,0:05:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even those brief visions of ecological\Nsustainability only seem to exist as part of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.93,0:05:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an impossibly distant future, in some alternate\Nuniverse, or inside of a virtual simulation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.06,0:05:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strange World offers a refreshing\Nbreak from that pattern
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.60,0:05:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because although the environment\Nis in great peril,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.22,0:05:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s still time to save it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.33,0:05:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the opening scenes we learn Avalonia has\Nprogressed from a pre-industrial village society
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.86,0:05:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a techno-futuristic one thanks to a newly\Ndiscovered energy source called Pando.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.14,0:05:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though grown and harvested like vegetables, \NPando is set up as a clear metaphor for fossil fuels.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.80,0:05:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Searcher: Hmm, Pando battery is dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.47,0:06:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meridian: That doesn't make any sense,\NI picked those pods an hour ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.08,0:06:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Pando begins to mysteriously fail,\NThe Avalonians embark on an expedition
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.64,0:06:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to save their way of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.07,0:06:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Callisto: Our mission is to follow these\Nroots until we reach the heart of Pando...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.90,0:06:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Callisto: ...and stop whatever's harming it!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.69,0:06:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're determined to find a way to keep\Ntheir fuel flowing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.72,0:06:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if that means going to war and\Nexterminating an entire alien species.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.40,0:06:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since this is an on-the-nose allegory for\Nclimate change, it turns out that
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.90,0:06:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pando is a parasite, which is very literally\Nkilling the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.83,0:06:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: This place is alive. It's a living thing!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.06,0:06:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Searcher: So, all this time we've been\Nliving on the back of this giant creature?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.69,0:06:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan is the first to make the connection\Nand understand the severity of their situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.12,0:06:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: And Pando is killing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.80,0:07:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after convincing his family to join\Nthe cause, they all demand change.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.48,0:07:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan & Searcher: A giant creature!\NOthers: What? A giant creature? You can't be serious.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.16,0:07:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Searcher: Okay, listen, this place, this world\Nthat we live on is a living thing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.08,0:07:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Pando is killing it. If we wanna \Nsurvive Pando has to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.88,0:07:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others: What? \NCallisto: You want us to Pando?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.18,0:07:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jaeger: They don't know what they saw\Nout there!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.65,0:07:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But their leaders are dead set on maintaining\Nthe status quo, and deny the truth of
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.35,0:07:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's happening to their ecosystem.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.37,0:07:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Searcher: Callisto?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.32,0:07:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: Dad!\NMeridian: Get your hands off me!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.65,0:07:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Callisto: Emotions are running really\Nhigh right now, and I don't know
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.39,0:07:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you think you saw, but we came down\Nhere to save Pando. That plan hasn't changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.52,0:07:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Searcher: You have no idea what you're doing!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.98,0:07:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan and his family are even arrested and\Nbriefly imprisoned for pointing out
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.36,0:07:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the scientific reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.15,0:07:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Searcher: You're making a big mistake! \NYou can't do this!! You have to listen to me!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.54,0:07:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conflict is short-lived and the deniers\Nare soon convinced.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.30,0:07:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meridian: Now do you see what we're \Ndealing with? That's a heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.19,0:08:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the scenario mirrors our own struggles\Nover the environment here in the real world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.16,0:08:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: ---aaaand, times up! \NOkay, fine. It's dead. See. You killed it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.64,0:08:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jaeger: That's what I'm talking about!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.15,0:08:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like we saw during that game of Primal\NOutpost, the goal of ecological sustainability
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.42,0:08:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is self-evident to younger people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.07,0:08:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: For the 27th time, there are no bad\Nguys. The objective isn't to kill or destroy
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.35,0:08:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,monsters. You're just supposed to build a\Nworking civilization utilizing the environment
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.50,0:08:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.24,0:08:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the older generations express confusion\Nand frustration at the idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.55,0:08:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jaeger: Uh-huh, yeah, I don't get this game.\NSearcher: Ptth! Me neither.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.38,0:08:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: Oh come on! It is not that complicated!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.92,0:08:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Searcher: No bad guys? What kind of game\Nhas no bad guys?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.30,0:08:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jaeger: That's just poor storytelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.31,0:08:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: Okay, you know what? You want bad\Nguys? Fine! You two are the bad guys!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.37,0:08:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're stuck in their ways, comfortable in\Ntheir lifestyle, and they can't fathom making
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.29,0:08:57.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sacrifices necessary to solve the crisis.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.25,0:09:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real villain in this story isn't a person.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.35,0:09:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is instead a rigid worldview that \Nrefuses to accept the need for change.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.92,0:09:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end the people of this strange world\Nare convinced to destroy Pando and
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.84,0:09:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give up the creature comforts that it\Nprovides in order to save their world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.24,0:09:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On one level, this is exactly the type of\Nhappy ending we've come to expect in
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.49,0:09:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,animated movies--the revelation that the\Nplanet and everything living on it
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.84,0:09:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are all interconnected is something\Nwe've seen before.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.42,0:09:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's different here are the messages\Nabout our future and how we get there.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.41,0:09:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meridian: Alright, next stop no power,\Ncold coffee, and angry masses!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.30,0:09:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meridian: Who's ready to go home?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.09,0:09:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In most family-friendly movies with\Nenvironmental themes, saving the earth--
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.24,0:09:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Linda: There are rare birds living around\Nhere! You can't cut down these trees!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.30,0:10:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--is framed in terms of conservation\Nrather than systemic change.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.86,0:10:05.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ted: And we can start by planting this!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.13,0:10:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the solution almost always involves\Npromoting some small, personal action
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.39,0:10:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like picking up litter, turning off the\Nlights, or planting a few trees.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.79,0:10:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Planeteers: Go Planet!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.81,0:10:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Captain Planet: The Planeteers want you to join\Nthem in keeping our planet clean, healthy, and beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.56,0:10:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wheeler: Don't litter! \NIt's completely uncool.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.87,0:10:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Captain Planet: The power is yours!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.99,0:10:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This type of message is designed to shift \Nthe onus for change away from the large
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.15,0:10:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,institutions who are actually at fault and\Nonto individual people.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.14,0:10:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What makes Strange World so different is\Nthat the environment isn't saved as a
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.62,0:10:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,result of a bunch of personal choices. It's\Nsaved by fundamentally transforming
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.30,0:10:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way an entire society operates.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.71,0:11:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They must quit Pando cold-turkey.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.69,0:11:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The allegory for us in the real world is pointed.\NWe must follow the example of the Avalonians
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.63,0:11:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stop extracting and burning fossil fuels.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.56,0:11:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can't do it slowly over ten, twenty,\Nor thirty years. The transition to green energy
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.16,0:11:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needs to be immediate.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.93,0:11:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrary to what big energy companies want\Nus to believe, there's no quick technological
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.96,0:11:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fix just around the corner that will stave\Noff climate collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.06,0:11:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Husband: Smells so clean!\NWife: Mm-hm!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.40,0:11:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coal Rep: Is regular clean clean enough for\Nyour family?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.30,0:11:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,False solutions like clean coal, carbon\Ncapture, or hydrogen fuel are just
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.74,0:11:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smoke-and-mirrors greenwashing campaigns\Nmeant to distract the public from our
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.47,0:11:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,continued investment in dirty energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.09,0:11:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coal Rep: Clean coal is supported by the\Ncoal industry--the most trusted name in coal.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.38,0:12:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we really want to save planet Earth, we\Nsimply cannot keep producing and consuming
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.06,0:12:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the wildly unsustainable ways that\Nwe do now.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.34,0:12:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now of course reorganizing an entire society\Nthat's been dependent on harmful energy
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.68,0:12:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will require enduring an uncomfortable\Ninconvenient period of readjustment.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.12,0:12:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But eras of great transformation can also\Nspark creativity and innovation.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.62,0:12:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Avalonians in Strange World don't need\Nto permanently return to an agrarian way of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.77,0:12:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They work through a period of hardship,\Nwith no power, and cold coffee, but they do
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.24,0:12:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it together as a community, and eventually\Nstart inventing renewable, wind-powered
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.81,0:12:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technology to get the lights back on and\Nthe airships flying again.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.27,0:12:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The optimistic message that ecological\Nharmony is in fact achievable puts
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.73,0:12:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strange World squarely in the solar punk\Ncamp, despite the lack of solar panels
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.20,0:13:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the story. It is a little ironic that a\Nstory about radical environmental
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.22,0:13:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sustainability comes from the Walt \NDisney company,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.89,0:13:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though it's not the first time filmmakers\Nhave snuck calls for systemic change
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.79,0:13:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a piece of corporate media.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.23,0:13:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These clips of a beautifully animated\Nfuturistic farm, for example, are part of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.10,0:13:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a yogurt commercial of all things.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.48,0:13:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brands have long tried to associate\Nthemselves with visions of the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.99,0:13:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can appreciate the rare positive\Nmessage while also recognizing that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.28,0:13:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a truly better world there is simply\Nno place for the corporate structures
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.31,0:13:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and systems that have brought our planet\Nto the brink of annihilation.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.42,0:13:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Strange World was released in theaters\Nit faced calls for boycotts from reactionary
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.01,0:13:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pundits who were angry about its diversity\Nand its storyline, where being gay is
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.06,0:13:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,framed as a completely normal thing\Nthat's no big deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.58,0:13:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ethan: That's really sweet!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.73,0:14:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The film's choice to center characters of\Ncolor is reflective of another critical
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.84,0:14:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,element in solar punk world building\Nbecause it acknowledges that many of
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.02,0:14:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ideas surrounding sustainable ecology\Naren't drawn from far-future science fiction
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.71,0:14:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but are instead rooted in African and\NIndigenous traditions developed
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.01,0:14:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well before Europeans colonized the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.38,0:14:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lyla June: By tapping into preexisting\Nnatural systems, Native farmers have
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.64,0:14:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been able to cultivate the same plots of\Nland for centuries without ever depleting the soil.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.92,0:14:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rise of solar punk media underscores\Nan important truth--
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.71,0:14:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Computer: Mega-restricted area.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.45,0:14:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--while it is necessary to understand the\Nseverity of the climate crisis that we face
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.66,0:14:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grim proclamations of our impending doom\Naren't enough to spur people to mass action.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.97,0:15:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories that instead helps us envision the\Nkind of future we actually want can be
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.78,0:15:06.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motivating, inspirational, and, critically,\Nmake that better future feel like it's
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.100,0:15:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within our grasp.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.90,0:15:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks so much for watching!
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Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.40,0:15:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or corporate ad. But since this channel\Nis 100% funded by viewers like you,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.37,0:15:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here are my cats instead.
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Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.26,0:15:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got a bunch more video essays in the\Nworks, including one on colonialism in
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.28,0:15:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,board games, one on the myth of the alpha\Nmale, and another about how male
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.44,0:15:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,characters often find redemption only\Nthrough death in Hollywood media.
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