ABSTRACT
In the iconic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, a Kansas farm girl, gets swept up in a tornado that plunks her down in the fantastical, full-color world of Oz. Clutching her dog Toto, Dorothy looks around in wide-eyed wonder and declares, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." These concepts redefine who and what counts as a character. In the Story of Better, significant actors include not only people but other species and ecosystems. Bringing nature from the background to the foreground also blurs the line between character and setting. At this point in the story, Moore is barely hanging on, grappling with the contours of an inconceivable world: a cast of thousands, a setting without boundaries, and the startling realization that we're all in this together. The research of Dietz and his colleagues revealed that cultures can choose to base decisions on equity, interdependence, and mutual accountability.
