The world is burning up icecaps melt floods drown the landscape and people starve These images are from a Shakespearean speech that dates from the seventeenth century Climate change today has twisted the seasons beyond recognition and the Bards words describing a mazed world are more relevant now than ever before The Seasons Alter is a vivid short film that uses Shakespearean poetry in the mouths of a modern family to illustrate the most pressing environmental challenge of our time