The Climate's Future: The Risks of Doing Nothing

Are rising levels of carbon dioxide disrupting the climate? There's a simple way to find out: do nothing to reduce emissions and see what happens. In this short documentary, two scientists describe the consequences of this approach — and some alternatives.

Interviewees:
⊳ Howard Herzog, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
⊳ Joseph Romm, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, and former head of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for the U.S. Department of Energy

2006

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.