Climate of Resignation

Unquiet Adolescence in Kathy Drayton’s The Weather Diaries

Against a backdrop of declining animal populations and out-of-control climate change, Kathy Drayton’s documentary chronicles the journey of the director’s child from secondary school to a successful music career in young adulthood – in doing so, giving voice to the next generation’s anxieties and lack of hope for the future. Training its focus squarely on the psychological impact of the crisis, The Weather Diaries is decidedly not in the business of offering solutions or preaching to the unconverted, Travis Johnson writes. Broadly speaking, documentaries about the climate crisis take a macro view – global, wide-spanning, invoking horrifying imagery that wouldn’t be out of place in a Roland Emmerich film. Even the more benign and hopeful examples of the subgenre truck in spectacle: consider the stunning vistas and daringly captured wildlife…

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