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‘Due to lack of interest, tomorrow has been cancelled’  was the title of a famous 1971 TV documentary about how the world was walking towards ecological disaster with its eyes shut. In this, the fourth installment of our series Seeing is Believing: the Politics of the Visual, Rod Stoneman remembers the impact of the images of that programme  and how it echos today in the growing concern about climate change. To listen to other podcasts in the series, which is presented and produced by Esther Gaytan Fuertes, click on the links below: Podcast 1 on Fashion images Podcast 2 on graffiti Podcast 3 on music videos Rod Stoneman: This photograph [above] is a picture of Los Angeles under smog, a problem that’s been addressed in recent years but for a long time, the inhabitants of Los Angeles were living through a self-inflicted ecological disaster. This came in focus for me personally when I saw a BBC science programme, Horizon in fact, in 1971 when I was in college. The title of this Horizon programme was, ‘Due