Hollywood seems very interested in climate change, yet plenty of industry insiders and activists think it’s not enough.

They run organizations like the Hollywood Climate Summit, Reality of Change, and Good Energy, which recently partnered with the USC Norman Lear Center’s Media Impact Project to produce a report called, “A Glaring Absence: The Climate Crisis is Virtually Nonexistent in Scripted Entertainment.”

Researchers monitored the frequency of mentions of 36 keywords related to climate change (such as “climate change,” “global warming,” and “melting glaciers”) in 37,453 scripted TV episodes and films from 2016-2020, and found that “only 2.8 percent of analyzed scripts included any climate change keywords.”

But is climate change really underrepresented?

[The didacts never tire of the didactic, and thus never recognize when everyone else does. — Ed]