EXTRAPOLATIONS — Review

TV Series on Apple +

Extrapolations is a drama fiction designed to promote awareness of the climate crisis by projecting us into a near future world where between 2030 and 2060 the planet loses many species, water levels rise and fires destroy much of what used to be habitable planet earth. It strives to portray the panicked people who are aware, and the people in denial who try to pretend the world is normal despite evidence to the contrary.

It’s so bad. You almost have to keep watching, just to see if it can get any worse. It can, and it does.

The climate-aware people are all kind, caring human beings, all working or studying in areas intended to help humanity avoid disaster. They care so much. It’s touching. The best one is a teenage girl in Miami whose Bat Mitzvah is happening, but she can’t be happy in the midst of climate collapse so she acts out and makes life difficult for her stereotypical wealthy climate-denier family.

The climate-denier people are all wealthy and without exception greedy, unprincipled and cruel people who will do anything for money and can’t see right from wrong as long as they’re making a profit.

You could say Extrapolations is silly and predictable, and good for kids as long as they’re not too cynical. Young people may get a confirmation for their climate anxiety and a boost to their good vs bad biases.

This series perfectly highlights why the problem is not climate but the way in which we’re debating with each other. The series — unintentionally, I suspect — has portrayed all the climate deniers as evil people, while all is climate activists are so kind, so nice. The social justice and climate activists have come to believe in themselves as the good people whose job it is to fight evil and protect the human race from greed, racism and bad people.

The savior complex is hurting these people, and all of us as a consequence. Climate change is undeniable, so why would some people stand against climate activism? It comes down to the sanctimony and finger pointing by the left, making any kind of intelligent discourse impossible. The good people are so right, if you fail to agree with every point they make, you must therefore be an evil person and therefore the enemy. Extrapolations reveals nothing new or interesting about climate science or what will happen if we can’t reverse the warming trend. Unwittingly though, its makers have illustrated the more pressing problem with aplomb. There shall be no debate, no negotiation and no concessions, because the climate activists are 100% right and we are not qualified to challenge their opinions. They claim a monopoly on science, though most are not STEM educated but arts and social sciences leaning. They never learned business skills that foster selling, marketing, diplomacy or negotiation. They were not raised to understand leadership and influence.

Thank you Apple+ and Extrapolations for making a terrible series that does provide one useful insight.