Our film relies on “The Line” to serve as a metaphor for the threshold between two distinct climate futures for humanity. It becomes the delineation between creation and destruction, beauty and chaos, present and future.

As our line slowly elongates, we see a world increasingly plagued by raging wildfires, devastating floods, and extreme weather events. But then, before the impending climax, tension is relieved as we reverse course. We begin to see hope as our line retracts. The audience is reminded that no matter how close we are to crossing the line, it’s still in front of us and the climate future is not predetermined.

The Line closes on WWF’s initiative to Regenerate Canada – a 10-year plan to reduce emissions, restore habitat, and protect wildlife. And we are reminded that it’s not too late to reverse the “irreversible”.

According to the United Nations General Assembly, the world has less than ten years to prevent irreversible damage from climate change. Yet, as the global clock counts down, nearly two-thirds of Canadians have found themselves losing hope for our environmental future, lost in a sea of complicated climate data, doomscrolling, and growing climate anxiety.

The planet’s continued path towards four degrees of warming will inevitably result in climate catastrophe. Yet despite the fact that people have resigned to accepting this future as irreversible, we have not yet reached a climate threshold and still have time to reverse four degrees of warming.

Climate change is not irreversible and WWF Canada is dedicated to reinspiring hope.

The Line:

Somewhere out there

is the line.

It is not visible.

But it is plain to see.

On the other side of the line

is a world on fire.

A world four degrees warmer than this one.

A world melting.

Flooding.

Disappearing.

It is a world of our own creation.

But we will not recognize it.

Somewhere out there

is the line.

The line we must not cross.

The line beyond which

we cannot return.

It’s close now.

Closer everyday.

Every hour.

But that line still lies ahead of us.

And we can still turn back.