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
Documentary Reflection
December 11, 2022 By: Ellen Ross T00611006
Documentary Reflection I am going to review the work of the Ancient Forest Alliance ( AFA) using a video and a narrative that was produced in 2021. It was produced in cooperation with the Tla’amin First Nation, of Powell River BC. The historic significance of Powell River was a large influx of white settlers that were brought here from mainly European Countries. These workers heavily logged the area then used the logs to develop pulp and paper, at what was then the worlds largest pulp and paper mill.[1] At that time there was no consultation with the Tla’amin First Nation…
Exercise #4: Documentary Reflection
November 1, 2022 By: Rao Fu
The documentary that I selected is called Canadian Tar Sand Controversy and the Ultimate Oil Sands Mine Alberta Canada. To satisfy the increase in global energy demand, more natural resources need to be extracted, such as fossil fuels and tar sand. Currently, 85% of global energy demand is met by burning fossil fuels (Giesy, 2010). However, since humans had already maintained the rapid development of the industrialized world based on fossil fuels for decades, the reserves of conventional crude oil are shrinking continuously, which led to the fluctuation of oil prices and oil shortage problems. It is because of the…
Turning BC Forests into Biomass Pellets
October 27, 2022 By: Jenn Wong
For this exercise, I was drawn to a recent news story that has come brought protest both at home and in the UK. Old grown and primary forest trees are being cut in British Columbia to be made into wood pellets to fuel UK thermal electricity plants. I was surprised to learn that just one UK company, Drax Group, controls half of the 14 pellet mills in the province.[1] With this monopoly control over BC resources, their claims of using only waste materials have been debunked. With the decline of clear cutting and sawmills, there is less waste which has…
The Legacy of Lyell Island (Gwaii Hanaas)
October 17, 2022 By: Isabelle La Roche
In 1985, Haida and Haida elders gathered at Athlii Gwaii (Lyell Island) to block the road in protest of logging. The efforts and campaign to halt logging and protest the South Moresby (now called Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site) had been in the works since the early 1970s. The protest at Lyell Island was a last-ditch effort to gain traction after years of land planning, negotiations, and court cases. Pictures of Haida elders in blankets and other regalia being arrested at the blockade for protecting their land raised awareness for this campaign across Canada (Vernon, 2010)….
HIST 3991 Environmental History – Assignment 1- Exercise #4: Documentary Reflection
September 27, 2022 By: Jennifer Marshall
Exercise #4: Documentary Reflection Since 2016, there has been active opposition to the development of the new Trans Mountain Pipeline through BC. Environmental activists have been strongly opposed to this pipeline project and the negative impacts it will most certainly have on the environment. Ironically, this pipeline not only passes through my hometown of Kamloops, but also directly through my neighborhood of Westsyde, and behind the hills of my home near Lac du Bois. Due to this fact, I have kept myself informed on the developments of this project and educated myself on both the positive and negative repercussions of…