There’s a big disconnect between the portrayal of fires on-screen and the reality of fighting them, firefighters and other experts say.
, less than 3% of the more than 37,000 analyzed movie and TV scripts written between 2016 and 2020 made any reference to climate change.
However, scenes featuring discussions about climate change or fire prevention and control methods like a homeowner raking leaves off their lawn or a firefighter digging a ditch, don't exactly make for scintillating screen-time., who studies the portrayal of wildfires in mass entertainment."It's very easy to tell the disaster and war story. It's much harder to tell the story of preventative stuff.
A few entertainment offerings are leading the way, integrating important — if somewhat less dramatic — topics like fire prevention and climate change into storylines."The servants line up in a bucket chain to put out the fire while the rich family members sip their wine and take in the spectacle," Petrosova said."So there's this highlight on injustice and who has to bear the brunt of the labor of the climate crisis and fires.
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