For this assignment you’ll be reading, listening, and watching different ways people tell their climate story or find a way to raise awareness. Choose one set of texts located under the Week 9 module. After reading, listening, and watching all 6 pieces, write a 200+ response. Here are some questions you might want to consider in your response, but you may have others.
1) How does each piece tell a climate story? What is the audience, message, and purpose of each one?
2) What reaction did you have to the different pieces? What was it about the pieces that elicited your different reactions or responses?
3) What was unique and helpful about each genre (ie. letter, interview, podcast, illustrated guide, film)?
4) Share any other thoughts you have about the piece(s). What ideas do they give you for Project #3?
SET OF READING:
Readings
1) Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here. – The New York Times (You may need to sign up for free articles from NY Times: https://ucsd.libguides.com/newspapers/nytLinks to an external site. and use the UCSD VPN: https://library.ucsd.edu/computing-and-technology/connect-from-off-campus/)
Description:
Last fall, the Climate desk at The New York Times asked readers to submit their questions on a complex topic: climate change.
Thousands poured in. Many of them were questions about the science of global warming and solutions. So editors and reporters narrowed the list to about 50 questions and began reporting out the answers.
Those responses appear in this interactive project that was published online last week. Readers can use a search function to browse questions or ask one of their own. To help guide readers to pertinent information, the team turned to an unlikely tool: machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that draws connections and predicts outcomes based on data. Type in a question that has yet to be addressed (“What should I recycle?�) and the technology will direct you to a relevant answer, reported and written by a journalist. (In this case, the tool recommends reading the answer to “Should I bother recycling?�) The system also notes the new questions, so that journalists can consider addressing them.
2) Jefferson, “Come Dream with Me: Environmental Justice, Colorized, 2021”
Description:
A San Diego author shares her climate story.
Videos/Short Films
The Farm Under the City (You will need to sign up for a free Waterbear account. This is a streaming service for films connected with the environment.)
Description:
Luke Ellis’ innovative business takes food waste from local restaurants and uses organic cycling methods to grow micro-herbs and vegetables from an underground bioponic farm under the streets of Sheffield’s industrial quarter.
How Trump’s Border Wall Would Disrupt Nature
Description:
The environmental impact of the border wall, explained.
Podcast
Description:
This episode looks at how and why one local politician in Carbon County, Wyo. — a conservative who says he’s “not a true believer� in climate change — brought wind power to his community. And we explore what the community’s reaction tells us about the prospects of persuading America to move away from fossil fuels.