A short history

In 2007 Antony Turner of CarbonSense , a climate change consultancy, met with Tim Britton and the rest of the innovative multi-media theatre company Forkbeard Fantasy . The meeting led to one of the first ever theatre productions about climate change: Invisible Bonfires. The show toured the UK for a year and included an animation about a strange species - Carbon Weevils - obsessed with digging up and burning fossil fuels.

Fast forward to 2018 when Tim decided to re-work his film in the light of the near billion-fold increase in world population since 2007. Antony, together with colleague Adam Nieman from Real World Visuals, then decided to collaborate with Tim to see if comedy could help people better understand the climate crisis.  By combining the comic element of the Carbon Weevils with scientifically accurate data visualisation we hope to motivate responsible actions.

Our aims

We would like to create education resources, both web-based and physical - downloadable teaching kits as well as books, cards and games featuring the failures and successes of Carbon Weevils grappling with the challenges of fighting the climate crisis. 

We are particularly keen to collaborate with commercial or not-for-profit organisations who feel the Carbon Weevils could help promote a low-carbon future.  

And we are also able to quickly create cartoon images or sets with visually accurate CO2 amounts that can respond to current breaking news stories.   

Help us

You can help us by telling friends, contacts and children about the Carbon Weevils.  Right now (July 2019) we are looking for a person or organisation who could work with us to put in place and build a strong Instagram, Twitter and FaceBook presence.  And we would love to meet up with potential funders who could help us realise our aims.  

Contact

Please get in touch if you have ideas, feedback or you think you could help in any way.

Email Antony Turner: antony@realworldvisuals.com