More entertaining than informative, greenman's latest Crock of the Week surveys the history of climate change in the movies!
Gotta dust off those old Mad Max VHS tapes again...
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Entertaiing and informative, as usual!
I did not know there was a "theological" debate about CO2 levels in the atmosphere, interesting.
Okay, so this one is a bit of a tear-jerker and I usually like to avoid mixing sentimentality with environmentalism, but it is very informative and interesting if sad. It is greenman3610's Climate Crock of the Week from about three weeks ago and as usual well worth watching.
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From greenman3610, Climate Crock of the Week gives a thorough review and debunking of "hide the decline" including the latest on Muller and the BEST project.
Also, if you are interested in the unfolding nuclear calamity in Japan, ClimateCrocks blog has been providing great coverage.
I am teaching my BIO101 again starting this Monday. The class is very small, so the discussions and student presentations will not last very long. Thus, I will have extra time at the end of each lecture. This can be a good time to show some videos. So, if you know of good movies available online…
I think Mr Sinclair is on to something here. We need a narrative that can catch the imagination and provide good information. An attempt to tell a single story of what climate change will bring will of course have inaccuracies (so I don't blame the older movies too much for being wrong in that way, but why are the more recent ones further from the truth?). The challenge will be (and probably always has been) how to engagingly tell a long story that occurs across generations with slow impacts. Maybe the story has to be told anthropomorphically from a tortoise's or tree's or sturgeon's point of view. If it can't be told with a protagonist living/struggling through it, then the climate change aspect of the story will always be merely background.
P.S. My favorite is "Delicatessen". I'm going to watch the Canadian film "Last Night" (apparently there's something wrong with the Sun?) this weekend. I thought Dennis Quaid was good in "The Right Stuff" (not a climate disaster movie).