Film and Television

Reasons for Curtailing Our – and Our Childrens' – Screentime [part 2/2]
But if we "can't" cut back on our screentime now, then at the very least we ought to be using those screens to prepare for the time when they'll be overwhelmingly taken away from us
Nov 10, 2021 16 min read comments
Reasons for Curtailing Our – and Our Childrens' – Screentime [part 2/2]
By Limiting Online Gaming China's Government Has Become as Heavy-Handed as My Parents Were [part 1/2]
Meanwhile, dare we be hopeful that children raised on screens will have the temerity to work the greens?
Oct 29, 2021 7 min read comments
By Limiting Online Gaming China's Government Has Become as Heavy-Handed as My Parents Were [part 1/2]
Movie Un-Review | Wendell Berry, the Not-Quite Rock Star Seer
To see, or not to see the new Wendell Berry documentary, that is the question
Jan 20, 2017 14 min read comments
Movie Un-Review | Wendell Berry, the Not-Quite Rock Star Seer
World Electioneering Entertainment 2016: 1,000 Years of Energy Independence and the Greatest Con Ever?
Could Trump be playing a WEE character in order to distract the citizenry from peaking energy supplies and the collapse of industrial civilization? [part 1/3]
Oct 28, 2016 16 min read comments
World Electioneering Entertainment 2016: 1,000 Years of Energy Independence and the Greatest Con Ever?
It's Time We Divest From the Pipelines – the Pipelines of Film and Television
Thanks to all the knock-on effects, there's possibly no greater change we could make in our lives to combat fossil fuel consumption (and thus climate change) than ditching film and television [part 4/4]
Oct 14, 2016 19 min read comments
It's Time We Divest From the Pipelines – the Pipelines of Film and Television
Live by the Camera and TV Screen, Die by the Camera and Movie Screen
Do film & television provide a net befefit, or might they actually result in an overall loss when it comes to climate change & other major problems of ours? [part 3/4]
Oct 6, 2016 15 min read comments
Live by the Camera and TV Screen, Die by the Camera and Movie Screen
What Do Climate Change Films Teach Us About Climate Change?
Do climate change films assist us in reducing our fossil fuel consumption or pacify us into watching ever more film and television and spewing out more CO2?
Jun 23, 2015 8 min read comments
What Do Climate Change Films Teach Us About Climate Change?
Collapse Café: Quitting Film and WWOOFing in New Zealand
[part 1/2]
Apr 21, 2015 1 min read comments

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The Netflix Wall, the Netflix Fall
Netflix is the latest in a long list of motion picture technologies, but while sweeping the globe what exactly do these technologies portend for a changing climate?
Apr 1, 2015 8 min read comments
The Netflix Wall, the Netflix Fall
Lemminged: To be Herded off the Peak Oil Cliff by Filmmakers
To sanely deal with the collapse of industrial civilisation will ultimately require us to to leave film and television before film and television leave us
Sep 1, 2014 7 min read comments
Lemminged: To be Herded off the Peak Oil Cliff by Filmmakers