Abstract Recent movies have relished depicting nature striking back at a human population that has forsaken her. Films like The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and San Andreas embrace the apocalyptic destruction of cities around the globe by way of sub-zero hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados, and other natural disasters. Surprisingly, the British theatre is equally engaged (albeit less spectacularly) in exploring the same threat. Namely, what happens when the natural world strikes back and begins to encroach against our established homesteads and populated cities. One of the best-known plays on the topic of climate change is Steve Waters’ The Contingency Plan (2009). Waters delves into the growing crisis of rising water tables to low lying areas of England by exploring the effect it has personally on an aging climate scientist and his wife and politically on their son, also a scientist, who is charged by two newly installed government officials with preparing Britain for the looming watery disaster. Eschewing the bombastic Hollywood nature of disaster films, Waters’ play is intimately crafted, showing the dangerous and fatal disruptions of the changing natural world, and, more specifically, the negotiations that take place between science and politics when it comes to the unpredictability of rising sea levels. My article examines this work in relation to how it approaches the threat of climate change to the British Isles by exploring Waters’ exploration of how politics, science, and family tensions affect the climatic future of the country.

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史蒂夫·沃特斯 (Steve Waters) 的应急计划中的气候变化科学与政治

摘要 最近的电影喜欢描绘大自然对抛弃她的人类进行反击。2012 年《明日之后》和《圣安地列斯》等电影通过低于零的飓风、地震、海啸、龙卷风和其他自然灾害对全球城市的世界末日毁灭进行了描述。令人惊讶的是，英国剧院也同样参与（尽管不那么引人注目）探索同样的威胁。也就是说，当自然世界反击并开始侵占我们已建立的家园和人口稠密的城市时会发生什么。史蒂夫·沃特斯 (Steve Waters) 的《应急计划》(The Contingency Plan，2009 年) 是气候变化主题中最著名的戏剧之一。沃特斯深入探讨了英格兰低洼地区地下水位上升的日益严重的危机，探讨了它对一位年迈的气候科学家和他的妻子以及他们的儿子的政治影响，他们的儿子也是一名科学家，他被两名新上任的政府官员指控为英国即将到来的水灾做准备。沃特斯 (Waters) 的戏剧避开了灾难电影的夸张好莱坞性质，精心制作，展示了不断变化的自然世界所带来的危险和致命的破坏，更具体地说，当涉及到上升的不可预测性时，科学与政治之间发生的谈判海平面。我的文章通过探索沃特斯对政治、科学、