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A one-act drama in which a man (The Scientist) passes from life to death, having “walked into the light.” During the transition he finds himself with a woman named Destiny. She is lovingly cheerful, there for a last conversation. Destiny might be thought of as some manner of deity, or simply Nature, or the Angel of Death. It is revealed in conversation that the Scientist died in The Event, in which during the fifth year of the Atlantic conveyor current having stopped there was a collapse of the Antarctic “doomsday” glacier. The Scientist died in a massive flood while visiting the Hemingway house at Key West.
Over the course of this conversation we realize that the Scientist’s parallel lives are an amalgam of climate denialism. Destiny talks to the Scientist about how he lived these parallel lives as professional climate deniers all while watching climate change play out over his lifetime. The conversation takes on the feel of a series of flashbacks, in which his other Vita Fila (life threads) appear. Throughout these several parallel lives the characters comforted themselves in believing that whatever effects climate change might bring, the consequences would occur long after they were gone. That made it easy for them to rationalize their professional pursuits as climate deniers despite actually accepting that climate change would bring major disruption to life on Earth.
Directed by Craig Trumbo (USA)