Spotify and @Planethon have released two riveting audio short stories about the climate crisis. The audio dramas are based on research data and future scenarios from Andrew Merrie, PhD and Head of Futures at Planethon.
- We have brought together researchers and creators to highlight the climate crisis in a new format and show humanityβs ability to affect our future. Absorbing climate science can be hard, but we are hoping that with these audio short stories, we can make it more accessible and create engagement in a target group that is interested in culture, says Karin BΓ€ckmark, Nordic head of podcasts at Spotify.
The stories bring us 50 years into the future and under the name of TWENTY SEVENTY-TWO. The first two episodes were released as Spotify Originals in connection to the Stockholm+50 conference, the environmental conference that marks the 50-year point after the first and historic UN conference on the environment was held in 1972. The third episode will be released in August.
Listen to the first two episodes in English now: https://open.spotify.com/show/4mmdd7o9fXYNYkIv9cNGFw
Or in Swedish: https://open.spotify.com/show/65YVqqVz3ezZvOrvjO1RAz?si=358cd32bc1ac474c&nd=1
Episode summary:
Episode 1: Ragna
Written by Henrik BjΓΆrn and read by Gizem Kling Erdogan
Liv lives in the great primeval forest with her grandfather who teaches her everything he knows about the world around them. But one day he takes her on a journey that will completely turn her world upside down. When everything is revealed, she must start making new difficult choices about the future.
Episode 2: Wild City
Written by Tuva Novotny and read by Edvin Ryding
In one of the new wild cities - which is green through urban cultivation and climate-smart alternatives - a family of several generations lives. They plan to celebrate their grandmother, who turns 85, with a trip to the neighborhoods of her childhood that are no longer inhabited. When they arrive, it suddenly does not go as they intended.
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