Five 12 minute films on the Environment for Grades 9 to 12.

Film 1: Gaia: By comparing life on Earth to a 45 year old woman, Gaia takes us on a breathtaking journey.

Anthropocentricity, astronauts,climate change, cosmos, Gaia hypothesis, geology, habitats, history, Lovelock, John Miur, nuclear age, population explosion, urbanism.

Film 2: Genesis: exploring scientific and religious perspectives on the Environment

Aquinas, Bacon, creation stories, deforestation, domination theory, ecology, empiricism,Green Movement, Industrial Revolution, intrinsic value, Luther, oceans, pollution, Scientific method, sustainability.

Film 3: Stewards and Slayers: 50% of species could be gone in 100 years.

Animal Rights, biodiversity, biotic community, conservation, covenant, Descartes,extinction, factory farming, genetics, habitat, husbandry, medicine, mysticism, reverence, Scweitzer, Singer, Stewardship, viral mutations.

Film 4: The Rapture: Ethical traditions know how to deal with genocide but not geocide

Australasia, Thomas Berry, biocide, carbon emissions, Chernobyl, China, consumption, ecocide, fossil fuels, fundamentalism, geocide, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, James Hansen, Issiah, world poverty.

Film 5: All Things Are Connected: First peoples view of the world as a sacred web of interdependent phenomena

Chico Mendes, Chief Seattle, colonization, cultural relativism, Deep Ecology, Ecosphere, ethnic cleansing, Land Ethic, missionaries, National Parks, Native Americans, Rainforests, Shallow Ecology, Standing Bear, Dorothy Stang, Native Americans, speculators.





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