10.4225/03/59226f22499fa Lindy A. Orthia Lindy A. Orthia "Paradise is a little too green for me": Discourses of environmental disaster in Doctor Who 1963-2010 Monash University 2017 science fiction Doctor Who utopias Literary Studies not elsewhere classified 2017-05-22 04:54:56 Journal contribution https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/_Paradise_is_a_little_too_green_for_me_Discourses_of_environmental_disaster_in_Doctor_Who_1963-2010/5016494 <div>Throughout its history, the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who has engaged with many of the real-life scientific and political issues faced by human beings. Environmental problems have been a staple in the Doctor Who canon from as early as the programme’s second season in 1964 to as recently as 2008. Yet the programme’s representations of these problems – their causes, their effects, and their solutions – have changed significantly over that time. In this paper I examine these changes and find that the programme follows a trajectory of increasing resignation towards chronic environmental problems, and increasing disillusionment with the ability of the West – specifically Western science – to provide solutions.</div>