In the synopsis, I summarize the results of this work and abstract my findings from the discourse thread of climate documentary films to contemporary societal issues and questions. I conclude that the future-as-future in the sense of (modern) progress optimism has little or no place in the current future relation. Instead, I identify two other figurations of future which I relate to the present and the past in their orientation. In the first thesis, I describe a neo-modern approach to the future, which adheres to an optimistic expectation. However, this utopia ex negativo contains no substance of its own apart from the negation of the catastrophe, which will not have occurred. In this sense, this approach to the future turns out to be a figuration of the future-as-present. I argue, that fed by the resilience dispositif (Bröckling) the predominant power strategy lies ultimately in stabilizing the society of non-sustainability (Blühdorn). In the second thesis, I explore the figuration of the future-as-past, which is expressed in the revaluation of pasts to be included in future prospects. Two discursive strategies operate in this figuration: On the one hand, the longing for a fictitious good past is projected into the future as a Retrotopia (Bauman) and, on the other hand, colonially destroyed Indigenous pasts are rehabilitated and thus bring forth reclaimed past futures.