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 * Six Degrees Could Change the World **

1. Title, director and release year? - Six Degrees Could Change the World - Ron Bowman - 2007  2. What is the central argument or narrative of the film?  If trends continue as they do that global warming will reach a point where there is no way of saving the earth from undergoing sever physical devastating changes. This film goes into detailed scenarios that will unfold as the world continues to warm at the current rate that is occurring right night. Descriptive visual as well as explanations of the effects to all countries and environments in the world are told thorough calculated scenarios.  3. What sustainability problems does the film draw out? - Global warming is the central topic that is discussed throughout the film, but it also continues to go further into what is fueling the global warming and slowly inching us closer to severe world changes. - Over usage of carbon admitting processes and how the is the main thing fueling the increased average temperature of the world. - <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The film goes into detail about the concept of carbon footprints and how it is a viable method of understanding someone or something’s direct impact to the pressing issue of global warming. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 4. What parts of the film did you find most persuasive and compelling? Why? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The effects from the little 1.5 F increase in the past century show that this have happened in the past and that there direct correlation that there is no reason that the same magnitude of change won’t happen if the temperature increases another 1.5 degrees. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The predictions that are due to occur within such a recent time are very threatening to think that things could change so drastically so soon. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Six degrees separates today from the ice age is unbelievable to think about. We only know the world how it is today and to try to grasp the concept that 6 degrees separates today from a world completely different is mind blowing. o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The devastating effects of a single degree increase and had destructive it would be to “our world today”. § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">weather patterns, famine, landmasses being engulfed in the ocean o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The changing American west and how it is affecting the people that live there and the changes that they have experienced the changes within their life time is startling. It is crazy to think that not only will it affect the people in that environment, but the chain reaction that will unfold due to a change in a single area. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The fact that global warming is now measured in periods of years and decades is astonishing to witness the acceleration increase and wonder how exponentially greater it will be in say 100 years. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The carbon impact of such a simple thing as a cheese burger is something that I would have never imagined. o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyday objects dramatically add up in the carbon footprint of people § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">200 million metric tons of CO2 for just cheeseburgers per year <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Devastating effects of climate change on animals and habitat and the impacting results of the animals migrating and then their effects on their new environments is another thing that I would have never even thought of if it was not presented in this film. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The melting increase to double in a decade of the glaciers and ice sheets is something that I have read about before but not to the extent expressed in this film. o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The effects only increasing other effects exponentially § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The ice water melting and flowing, cutting through the ice berg and accelerating the rate at which the icebergs flow into the ocean § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Raising the ocean water 7 meters and the destruction that it would cause on coastal countries and cities is scary <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The breakdown of such a vital ecological role as photosynthesis o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The trees in Paris actually admitting CO2 back into the environment rather than converting it to O2 is a such a factual sign that the destruction we have caused on the environment is so serious that it is altering such a natural process. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 5. What parts of the film were you not compelled or convinced by? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The addition of the positives of the change of climate, such as the agricultural boom in the UK and England, detracts from the serious motif emplaced but the devastating effects to the Mid West. There is no way to justify such destruction with the increase of productivity in other areas because it will all have a domino effect. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">New light bulbs are continually released saying that previous versions and technology are not as effective which is viewed as a negative thing in the film although I believe that although newer and newer versions are being released, that any improvement at all over conventional lights is an improvement and right now all the little bit helps. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 6. What additional information does this film compel you to seek out? Where do you want to dig deeper and what connections do you want to make with other issues, factors, problems, etc.? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The increase of temperature is allowing from some to grow new crops, but what about those where it has become too intense to grow anything at all. It would be interesting to look into some statistics such as: o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Economical effect of these countries that show how much is being lost from crops that could not be grown compared to the revenue that is being made from the new crops. o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is it affecting other systems in these areas that are receiving an agricultural boost? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The statistical effect of climate change on the global economic scale would be similar to what I previously mentioned about the lost/ gain analysis but on a global scale would be much more impactful. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What is allowing and the basis of the arguments from scientists that say the tipping point is at diff increases of temp. How are they using the same information to result in different tipping points? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 7. What audiences does the film best address? What kind of imagination is fostered in viewers? Do you think the film is likely to change the way viewers think about and act on environmental problems? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Those who doubt that weather and climate change will have serious effect on the earth and that it will be able to adapt. The visuals that are used in this film is the perfect method of describing what will happen if global warming continues at that rate that it is now. Anyone can read statistics or listen to people talk about it but actually seeing the visual predictions of what will happen to world allows an untouched group of people to hopefully begin to understand the repercussions of what we are doing to the environment. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 8. What kinds of action or points of intervention are suggested by the film? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Promoting alternative and self sustaining energy sources are basically the main thing that is suggested because the huge focus on the increase of temperature in this film is pointed to the release of carbon emissions. So therefore focusing on clean and renewable sources would be the most effective way of limiting these emissions. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 9. What could have been added to this film to enhance its environmental educational value? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- I feel as though this film does a great thing for expressing visually what could happen, but I feel that there is so much thrown out at the viewer that it tends to overwhelm them and then may actually take away from what the viewer thinks about. My suggestion for increasing the value would be to focus more so on the first few degrees of increase more so than the last few so viewers understand the devastating effects of even a little raise.