Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerTom Heap will front Sky News's new weekend editions of The Daily Climate Show from this weekend.Humans love a good story. We are a narrative species. We assign fables, faiths and pictures to random patterns of stars. We hunger for conspiracy theories when the truth is so often just coincidence.
Our fight to avoid catastrophic climate change has the ingredients for the most compelling story: high stakes, heroes, villains and we are all involved. So how can we shape this into compelling television?Programme commissioners have been reluctant to greenlight green TV, especially on climate change, because they think it will make the audience feel sad, guilty and powerless. That isn't a recipe for bums on seats.
I have worked in climate and environment broadcasting for 25 years and in that time I have become unshakeably convinced by the reality and urgency of the problem but also perturbed by the doom dominated narrative.
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