Meryl Streep Promotes Eco-Conscious Storytelling in New PSA: Climate Change Is Scary

The Oscar-winning icon stars in “Want to Tell a Great Story?” a new public service announcement that launched Monday from the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance that was produced in collaboration with WRtF.

Meryl Streep is making her voice heard on climate change – quite literally.

The Sustainable Entertainment Alliance and NRDC’s Rewrite the Future present a new PSA film, “Want to Tell a Great Story,” narrated by the Oscar-winning icon, which premiered today.

“Hey, got a story for you about climate change?” Streep says the word no on a screen and then a montage of various characters from get out, the Lego movie, and Anchorman all say no within the first few seconds. “We get it, we really do. Climate change is scary. It can make us feel, well, a little anxious They can make you feel a tad anxious, that’s if you are the nervous type. But we watch movies and television to run away. But wait free sample for a dark blue car What if we altered the question?

Streep does just that and alters the query: “Want to see a great story? It is possible for stories themselves to interact with the climate while using the function of leisure. Whether they are drama, comedy or tales of fearless endeavor, tales of defending that which is closest to the heart or an adventure narrative, climate change is the narrative of the age and it is playing out as we speak in the micro and the macro alongside the steadily ascendant force that is social media.

Her voiceover is provided over a background of videos created from various climate-change discussions or environmental footage. Included in the PSA are scenes from The Day After Tomorrow, Don’t Look Up, Free Willy, Avatar, Red Notice, Mad Max: Fury Road, 30 Rock, Jurassic World Dominion, The Last of Us, The Office, Big Little Lies, Deepwater Horizon, Moana, Interstellar, The Crown, Beatriz at Dinner, My Octopus Teacher, Extrapolations, Dune, Ted Lasso, 3 Body Problem, Outer Banks, Wednesday, Abbott Elementary, Peter Rabbit 2, Black Panther, Avatar: The Way of the Water, The Biggest Little

To end it off, Streep concludes, saying, “Want to tell a great story?” while pointing towards ClimateOnScreen.org, the site which connects climate and great stories’. The clip also includes Coldplay’s ‘Adventure of a Lifetime’ and you can watch the whole thing here.

Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, previously the Sustainable Production Alliance, is a project of film, television, and streaming production companies working for environmental responsibility in the industry by their actions on and off screen. The association’s members are A24, Amazon Studios, Amblin Partners, Disney, Fox Corporation, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Village Roadshow, Warner Bros. Discovery. The alliance is now focused on an expansion by developing resources and opportunities for industry engagement around sustainability onscreen after having provided all of the guidelines for sustainable production through the Green Production Guide.

“We are glad to work on how entertainment can respond to audiences’ desire for stories that reflect and respond to our warming planet and propel the industry toward a greener future — onstage and behind the scenes,” said Sam Read, the executive director of Sustainable Entertainment Alliance.

Adds NRDC’s Rewrite the Future director, Daniel Hinerfeld: “The professionals are pushing the bar going for the creation of environmentally conscious and relevant award-winning films/tv shows & series. Not every story must have a lens through which climate change is viewed; but just knowing that we are living in a climate altered world has the power to make any story that bit more meaningful and engaging.