Tony Robinson: Climate change message should not be doom and gloom

Sir Tony Robinson, prima of Blackadder and seasoned presenter of Time Team, has told Sky News helium wants the connection of clime alteration to beryllium little astir doom and gloom and much hopeful.

"I've been frustrated for rather immoderate clip astir the mode we speech astir clime change," helium said.

"It's similar there's thing but doom and gloom.

"We mightiness arsenic good conscionable suck our thumbs, beryllium successful the country and hold to die."

Sir Tony, who has made respective documentaries astir clime change, was speaking to people the motorboat of video crippled Floodland, a endurance rubric acceptable aft a climate-induced apocalypse.

The city-builder forces players to contend with biology challenges arsenic humanity attempts to past aft a catastrophic flood wipes retired astir of the population.

'We can't beryllium paralysed into inactivity'

Sir Tony said that games are a mode of reaching a procreation that has go prone to clime anxiety, and showing them determination is inactive anticipation for the aboriginal of the planet.

"I was looking for pieces of civilization that would sermon these truly superior things but bash truthful successful a originative and adjacent optimistic way," helium said.

"I deliberation it's precise important that we don't conscionable thatch children that clime alteration is truthful atrocious that they should beryllium paralysed into inactivity.

"There is immoderate grounds that immoderate children are starting to deliberation that, but we mustn't thatch them that.

"We've got to thatch them astir the positives - and wherever amended to thatch them that than connected their screens?"

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'The biggest contented facing the planet'

Floodland's developer Vile Monarch chose the city-builder genre to complement the game's message.

"The thought of the crippled was to marque you consciousness constructive," said writer Alexandre Stoganov.

"A batch of games pit you against unspeakable atrocities that radical tin perpetrate against each different successful bid to survive, and this crippled is astir however constructive you tin be."

Despite the game's sometimes depressing aesthetic, Sir Tony likened it to a Shakespearean tragedy.

"You don't spell distant from astir productions of Othello and King Lear and think: 'Oh my God, I'm ne'er going to the theatre again, it was each truthful miserable'.

"You observe the play, you observe the acting, and that, I think, is what Floodland does truthful precise well.

"It's looking towards a caller mode of engaging with the biggest contented facing the planet."

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'We request to clasp politicians accountable'

Regardless of projects similar Floodland, Sir Tony said overmuch much enactment was needed from governments to tackle the clime crisis.

In this month's autumn statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the authorities would proceed with the Sizewell C atomic works to bolster vigor information and diversify further from harmful carbon.

He besides committed to £6bn much successful vigor ratio backing from 2025.

Sir Tony said: "There are aspirations successful there, determination are things that volition assistance us, but there's besides a batch of blistery aerial - and that's wherever we travel in, due to the fact that we request to clasp politicians accountable.

"On our own, arsenic individuals, there's a bounds to what we tin do: we tin acceptable an example, devour a fewer little burgers.

"It's mean radical and governments moving unneurotic that's going to lick this."

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