This approach combines a robust scientific evidence-base with techniques from storytelling, weaving them together into imagined future scenarios. Merrie noted how the films quickly sparked the kinds of conversations he had hoped for. Unlike the often sterile language of policy documents, these films lean into complexity and ambiguity. Instead, they inhabit a space Merrie describes as “dynamic and open rather than inevitable and closed.”Good science needs good storytellersThe plan now is to move beyond UNOC3. “We think good science needs equally good storytellers,” he said.