"Interstellar" -- A Climate Documentary

We've all seen sci-fi movies -- like Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) -- where humans manage to overcome severe, apocalyptic weather despite impossible odds. Well, according to FEMA Chief Deanne Criswell, the deadly Kentucky tornadoes this week are an example of extreme weather that is part of the "new normal." Is our reality headed in the same route as Cooper in Interstellar? Will we be forced to trek the cosmos for a new more habitable home?

The Telegraph: 2021 - A year of extreme weather, November 4, 2021.

NBC: Extreme Summer Weather - The Climate Crisis From Coast To Coast, September 6, 2021

BBC: Weather disasters over past five decades 'have increased five-fold,' September 1, 2021.

The Economist: See what three degrees of global warming looks like, October 30, 2021.

About Alexandra Bowman

Alexandra Bowman is World War Zero's cartoonist in residence. She is a political cartoonist and satirist, creating work with The Lincoln Project and environmental newsletter Our Daily Planet. Bowman's illustrations have been published by BBC News, BBC Books, Puffin Books, the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, the National Wildlife Federation, and Penguin Random House UK. As a rising senior at Georgetown University, she is double majoring in English and Art and will be graduating early with a Master's in English in May 2023. Bowman also founded The Hilltop Show, a political comedy webseries run by over 50 undergraduate and graduate student members from around the world, and serves as its host and Lead Satirical Writer.