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11219 Climate Change Film Research

Updated: Feb 18, 2020

Your brief is to explore and explain some of the issues around climate crisis. You will be communicating the concepts behind scientific facts and make them to accessible to everyone through narrative and moving image and you need to propose solutions.

-visual data, new ways of showing old facts

-metaphor

-imaginative usage of sound

-thought provoking

-useful

-inventive

-ambitious


No purely numerical data

No sadness and terror without positivity or solutions

No “raising awareness”




 

Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change


-2 degrees heating up

The heat accumulating in the Earth because of human emissions is roughly equal to the heat that would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs exploding across the planet every day

-but people and animals are able to adapt more to the changing climate more than what was thought

-clean energy is more cheaper

-not eating beef might help the planet


Climate Change: How Do We Know?


-dig up some ice and measure how much co2 has been emitted in the air

-for a millenia the graph was steady but since 1950 it went crazy

-last ice age was 7000 yeas ago, now the modern climate era


This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.3

Finding common ground amid climate controversy


-"believers" and "doubters"


This sentiment was echoed during the interviews: “There’s too much screaming and not enough talking,” said one as he described the state of the climate conversation.

-most common are of agreement was that corporation have little to no role in setting public policy (yeah) and humans have a negative impact on the earth


Some values to think about when dealing with climate change:

-government regulation of industry, good or bad

-stricter environment laws, effective or not effective

-are humans the main reason of climate change?

-are environmental problems exaggerated

-are scientists telling the truth

-should earth's resources be used carefully?

-should corporate have a role in setting rules to protect the enviroment




References

  1. Gillis, J. (2017). Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change. [online] Nytimes.com. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/28/science/what-is-climate-change.html [Accessed 1 Dec. 2019].

  2. Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. (2019). Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?. [online] Available at: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ [Accessed 1 Dec. 2019].

  3. Kirk, K. (2019). Finding common ground amid climate controversy » Yale Climate Connections. [online] Yale Climate Connections. Available at: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/04/finding-common-ground-amid-climate-controversy/ [Accessed 1 Dec. 2019].

 

Tube protest was a mistake, admit leading Extinction Rebellion members


aaaaaPIC


-lots of negative reaction

-Canning Town tube station

-but many believe that large scale disruption was good for pressurising the government


Why was the Met's Extinction Rebellion protest ban unlawful?


-metropolitan police imposed a ban on any assembly related to XR

-two senior judges said it was unlawful

-police might be looking for other ways to ban protesting

-is disrupting the public system a good tactic for XR?


References

  1. Townsend, M. (2019). Tube protest was a mistake, admit leading Extinction Rebellion members. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/20/extinction-rebellion-tube-protest-was-a-mistake [Accessed 1 Dec. 2019].

  2. Dodd, V. and Taylor, M. (2019). Why was the Met's Extinction Rebellion protest ban unlawful?. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/why-was-the-mets-extinction-rebellion-protest-ban-unlawful [Accessed 1 Dec. 2019].

 

Greta Thunberg Rips World Leaders at the U.N. Over Climate Change



*comment section is very entertaining, yes it is a bit awkward to watch but good message I think. Its a meme now.


Don't leave the work for the future generation!


Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change



-we need to change the way we talk about climate change

-"doom and gloom messaging"

-fear, guilt, not effective

-we need a very simple and easy to understand idea of climate change to not be afraid of it

-a short, catchy term, motto, catchphrase

-co2, the invisible problem IF CO2 WAS BLACK

-frame the information so that it'll be easier to see

-change the consumer behaviour!

-comparative behaviour of people can be used to promoted clean living

-how are we making progress?


 

Artworks on Climate Change


The Yes Men Are Revolting 2014


Of All the People in All the World – also known as The Rice Show


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Stefanie Posavec is a brilliant and innovative designer who deals with data in amazing ways:

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Dear Data is a year-long, analogue data drawing project between Stefani Posavic and Giorgia Lupi, an information designer based in New York

http://www.stefanieposavec.com/dear-data-about

http://giorgialupi.com/

https://informationisbeautiful.net/ http://mengchih.com/portfolio/a-stranger-to-words/ http://species-in-pieces.com/


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