CinematicCanLit

We are a Canadian literature and film studies class studying novel to film/TV adaptations of contemporary Canadian works.

[CinematicCanLit @ENGL4401]

@EnglKyler Thank you too, Kyler. That would be great to see you again in another film studies class!

[CinematicCanLit @ENGL4401]

Ready to wrap up Cinematic Canadian Literature with your @ENGL4401 final exam?

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@tmburnstad @EnglKyler I’m glad you drew a line for yourself and didn’t finish the book. Some films only bear a single viewing.

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[Fakhir E @fakhir44222]

@ENGL4401 Novelist Jonathan Franzen thinks fighting climate change made sense as long as it was possible to win. He says we are decades too late to overcome the disaster that awaits us. Source: "We’re Stuck in a ­Rhetoric of False Hope on Climate Change" https://t.co/x3dagHZP33

[Fakhir E @fakhir44222]

@ENGL4401 Did you know there is a third position when it comes to climate change? I was surprised to learn that some people accept climate change, but don't think we should do anything about it because it is too late. They label all efforts against climate change as false hope.

[Tanya M. Burnstad @tmburnstad]

@ENGL4401 Maybe Klein is right & we are all climate change deniers in that we have those moments of “I just can’t go there” (Klein and Lewis interview 1:34) but “there” is exactly a place that we need to go b/c some people on this planet don’t have the option of looking away 1/?

[Tanya M. Burnstad @tmburnstad]

Hey @ENGL4401 I've been really struggling with what to focus on in relation to Klein’s This Changes Everything and Lewis’s documentary of the same name b/c I am one of those people who sees the photos of starving polar bears and feels the need to act. Thinking back on our 1/?

[Irene Yakovleva @yakovleva_irene]

@ENGL4401 In her interview, Naomi Klein said that "we are all climate change deniers to one degree or another"(“Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis adapt "This Changes Everything"). Could it be that some nations are less deniers than others? Is the attitude towards nature culturally neutral?

[Irene Yakovleva @yakovleva_irene]

@ENGL4401 do you believe that Naomi inherited her character from "politically active family?" Grandfather attempted to organize a labour union. Parents emigrated from USA to protest the Vietnam War. Mother directed the feminist antipornography documentary Not a Love Story.

[Sheryar Bashir @SheryarBashir1]

@ENGL4401 Few scholars argue that most of the works of climate fiction are leading readers to associate climate change with intensely negative emotions. Some believe that this attitude is counterproductive to the efforts of environmental engagement or persuasion. [cont’d 1]

[CinematicCanLit @ENGL4401]

@EnglKyler Stay angry. We need to harness it to change everything.

[Kyler Emerson @EnglKyler]

@ENGL4401 P. 70 in "This Changes Everything" was the hardest page to read for me. Quote: "Not only do fossil fuel companies receive $775B - $1 trillion in annual global SUBSIDIES, but they pay nothing for the privilege of treating our shared atmosphere as a free waste dump. /1

[CinematicCanLit @ENGL4401]

@selinalearns Wonderful — thanks for sharing this!

[Selina @selinalearns]

@ENGL4401 Logos is used effectively in the 2015 documentary This Changes Everything through comparison of two different stories, two different perspectives. The first story and perspective is the narrative that man controls nature, instead of nature controlling man.

[CinematicCanLit @ENGL4401]

@EnglKyler Your thread, just like the documentary, is a call to action. Thanks for sharing it.

[Kyler Emerson @EnglKyler]

@ENGL4401 In watching "This Changes Everything", one thought stood out to me most: we have to work with nature. As Klein said, for a time period humans believed fossil fuels allowed us to control nature, but that's simply an illusion. /1

[Fakhir E @fakhir44222]

@ENGL4401 Canadians and Americans emit an average of 360 tonnes over an average life span of 67 years, while the global average sits at 89 tonnes. Does anything seem disproportionate? (Source: UVIC Climate Science)

[CinematicCanLit @ENGL4401]

@TahaM33658442 Can you connect this to Klein’s and Lewis’s arguments?

[Fakhir E @fakhir44222]

@ENGL4401 45% of Canada's carbon emissions form from burning fuel. If there is any industry where more significant changes need to be made, it is this one.