Exercise #4: Documentary Reflection
Instructions
For your fourth Exercise assignment, you will make connections between the environmental movement in the recent past and today by considering what you are challenged to learn from documentarians of that movement.
- Find a current or recent report in the mainstream or alternative media of an environmental topic or issue in your local or wider region. As you read/ hear about the issue, consider where you stand on it. Identify your position and your thoughts.
- Use the documentaries in this course unit to reflect on the role that civil disobedience has played in the history of environmentalism, researching one other recent example to defend your answer to the question of whether it works to bring positive change.
Use your research in the mainstream and alternative media from Activity 1 of this unit for this exercise Post the media links and your analysis. Aim for a minimum of 300 words.
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Submissions
Exercise #4
February 15, 2022 By: True St.Denis
In the Upper Seymour River- a six-hour drive on a logging road from where I live lays an untouched forest of ancient red cedars.1 This forest is now at risk for logging, as two companies have proposed blocks set in this area that are also a known caribou habitat.2 Not only would logging this area destroy acres of thousand-year-old trees, but it would also create pathways for wolves to easily access the caribou habitat.3 Logging creates more access for wolves, causing amplified predation for caribou populations.4 Once reading this article, I was astonished that I had not heard about this…
Documentary Reflection
February 7, 2022 By: Yimeng Chen
I affirm IPBES’s observation that the loss of species diversity has continued to accelerate in recent years. The unprecedented and rapid decline in biodiversity is causing the extinction of noble organisms globally. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) considers the current measures against species extinction by the international community as insufficient.[1] I share the idea that the world needs significant transformative actions to initiate environmental protection changes. Transformative actions will involve a drastic change from non-renewable to renewable energy sources to protect and restore nature. Besides, it is essential to overcome opposition from lobby groups with…
Exercise #4
February 3, 2022 By: Wanyue Li
One of the most debated environmental issues concerns conserving forests or maintaining industries in Canada. In his news article at Mongabay, Butler opines that the government should make a stand between conserving the environment and proceeding with industrialization. The logging industry has benefited for a long time in Canada, and laws are needed to protect against further forest resource exploitation. However, despite laws in BC, they are all dormant as they have not been implemented to limit environmental pollution through logging. Furthermore, the existing laws are not sufficient for the environment as they have allowed leakages where people can go…
Documentary Reflection
January 30, 2022 By: wei zhang
A current environmental issue that continues to be debated in Canada is the choice between maintaining industries and the need to conserve nature. According to a news article by Mongabay, the constant loss of forests requires the government to take a stand between maintaining the logging industry or implementing conservation efforts that will save forests[1]. Although various laws in the protection of forests exist in British Columbia, none of them are doing much to reduce or eliminate the destruction of forests. For instance, the existing laws protect wildlife, forests, wilderness recreations, and other visual impacts. However, there is an Annual…
Assignment #1 Exercise # 4
January 24, 2022 By: Aaron Wagner
Norman Fennema, PhD Hist 3991 Environmental History Aaron Wagner January 20, 2022 Exercise #4 So to answer the second part of this question first no I do not think that civil disobedience helps the cause of environmentalism and there are a few reasons why I think protesting and putting on these big acts of environmentalism helps. I do not think protesting helps very much because the point of a protest is to try to force the government or other major corporations to take notice of whatever you are fighting for but 9 times out of 10 they…