Turns out I’m not the only one itching for more movies and TV shows dealing with global warming. Hillary Clinton feels the same way. The former U.
S. secretary of State — who received 2.8 million more votes than Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election but lost to Trump because of an electoral college system that was written into the U.
S. Constitution in part to persuade slave states to approve the governing document — spoke last week at an Environmental Media Assn. event in West Hollywood.
Clinton talked about one of her family foundation’s latest initiatives , a guide for Hollywood screenwriters and producers looking to include climate themes in their films and shows. The guide is focused on stories about children, who are especially vulnerable to higher temperatures, bigger fires, stronger storms and other fossil fueled harms because their brains, lungs and other organs are still developing — and because disruptions to their mental and emotional development can have long-lasting effects. “Extreme heat has very serious consequences on pregnant women, on infants, on babies, on toddlers,” Clinton said Wednesday.
“We know that the pollution from wildfires, something that you’re all too familiar with here, has respiratory consequences — and most severely on children. [We know] what that means for the development of asthma and other respiratory conditions.” There’s science backing up those assertions.
The day after Clinton’s remarks, my L.A. Times .