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In this episode of the MEER Podcast, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Adam McKay, the creator of The Big Short, Vice, Don't Look Up, and founder of Yellow Dot Studios, joins us to discuss how storytelling, climate communication, his latest essay The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate, and why telling the truth about climate has become one of society's greatest challenges.

Adam reflects on his transition from comedy into political and climate-focused filmmaking, and how researching Vice profoundly changed his understanding of human-caused climate warming. The conversation explores Adam's belief that storytelling can connect empirical truth with human experience and make complex subjects more accessible and engaging. Drawing on The Big Short and Don't Look Up, he challenges the assumption that a ...