https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli en-us 2022-11-14 21:18:53 UTC 2026-02-21 05:23:22 UTC hello@padlet.com shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383669922 This is a young adult novel about a town called Sleepy Valley as it undergoes a series of climate catastrophes. Marley and Brianne are challenged with the task of saving their town and the world from the repercussions of decades of environmental injustice. The story demands the need for us to pay attention to the way we treat our planet and the way that the repercussions of our actions will be felt most by the youth of today.]]> 2022-11-14 21:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383669922 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383681865 Dry is a book about a somewhat post-apocalyptic world in which a long-standing drought becomes a climate emergency when the water runs out. The story highlights the desperation and chaos that humanity might resort to following the loss of resources that we depend on for survival. Though it leans on the side of science fiction/speculative fiction, there are some very relevant and real connections to real life in our current moment, as well as legitimate commentary on human nature and our responses to adversity and emergency.]]> 2022-11-14 21:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383681865 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383951379 Don't Look Up is a movie about two astronomers who must go on a media tour to attempt to warn the world about a meteor that is hurtling towards the Earth, large enough to destroy all life as we know it. The movie is a commentary on the tendencies we have to ignore the changes to Earth's climate and the increasingly common natural disasters that it has caused in order to carry on with ordinary life until it is too late. The movie also comments on the media's desire to sensationalize without doing anything about the issues it covers.]]> 2022-11-15 02:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383951379 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383972908 The day after tomorrow is a movie about Jack Hall, a paleo-climatologist who notices a weather change related to the advent of the second ice age --a weather change that is about to happen in modern times as Carbon Dioxide rates continue to harm the atmosphere. Following a series of major weather disasters, the world enters a new ice age, and Jack, in Washington D.C. is separated from his son in New York City. Determined to get to him before weather turns from worse to worst, Jack must do whatever he can to save his son from a climate that only he really understands. The movie is another commentary on the way that society stalls its response to climate change, as well as the extremes in climate that our habits and lifestyles may be causing.]]> 2022-11-15 02:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383972908 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383997410 Eilish's song from her debut album "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?" addresses climate change in a very subtle and poignant way, insinuating that the rising heat from global warming is like the heat from hell boiling over, and pointing out that we as humans have brought this fate onto ourselves. She illustrates her somewhat abstract ideas in her music video, in which she is dressed as a fallen angel dressed in all black as she dances while the street burns behind her. Essentially, the song is calling out her listeners for being able to see climate change and global warming but most do not do anything about it.]]> 2022-11-15 02:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2383997410 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384012091 This classic is about the way that mass production and corporations will ruin natural spaces and tear down greenery to make money. It's beautiful, it's acoustic, it's the lovely Joni Mitchell. The lyrics are very clearly about the environment, but the title focuses more on the destruction of nature and corporate greed more than other titles in this linked text set, which have a heavier focus on the aspects of climate justice such as global warming and depletion of resources.]]> 2022-11-15 02:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384012091 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384050246 This piece touches on issues of depletion of natural resources and the destruction of green spaces in this grim visual. Combining multiple medias and extracting the media from the painting in dripping visuals creates a very alarming vision of our future if we do not answer the crisis knocking at our door.]]> 2022-11-15 03:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384050246 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384072632 Nor Tijan Firdaus is a Malaysian artist who uses discarded electronics to create this portrait. She seeks to highlight issues of materialism and over-consumption through the use of nontraditional mixed media in a visually interesting way. The picture itself is a portrait of a young child who assembles such products in assembly lines which force slave-like conditions onto innocent and naive children, a very powerful image. This visual interprets the issue of climate change through a lens of social inequality, reminding the viewer that though climate change affects all, those in places of lower socioeconomic status and higher poverty feel its effects the most.]]> 2022-11-15 03:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384072632 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384091479 Beyond Blue is an interactive fiction game in which the player is introduced to a complex ecosystem which is undergoing both ecological harm and regrowth following human interaction. The game aims to highlight the beauty of Earth's oceans, the harm we have done to it, and the need/ability we have to restore it through scientific and humanitarian action. The hope is that through playing this game, players will have a newfound respect for nature and a realization of the urge to revitalize it.]]> 2022-11-15 03:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384091479 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384107290 This song discusses climate change and the ways that it is largely ignored by those in charge as we continue to worsen and worsen the problem. He uses direct language as well as an extended metaphor about sailing on the ocean to touch on the continued issues of climate change. But Sir Paul definitely has enough money, so I wonder why he doesn't put more of it towards funding efforts to mend climate change.]]> 2022-11-15 04:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2384107290 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385163133 This graphic novel illustrates the importance and beauty of fish to the world's ecosystem. It gives nonfiction facts and history in the beautiful and digestible graphic-novel format. It extends readers' knowledge of the ocean with an in depth exploration of the ways we rely on our ocean's ecological balance.]]> 2022-11-15 16:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385163133 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385169940 This game lets the players play from the perspective of a bee, where they are shown the ways that bees are necessary to the environment, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. In playing this game, the player learns the danger of letting bees go extinct, and the dire need that exists to save the bees.]]> 2022-11-15 16:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385169940 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385180744 Eliasson imported 30 large blocks of glacial ice to the urban exhibit in London in the courtyard in front of Tate Modern and Bloomberg Headquarters. The piece aims to reignite a passion and connection to our planet and it's diminishing glaciers by bringing the ice to their front doors. Viewers are encouraged to hug, touch, and interact with the ice and remember that such majestic natural phenomena are real and are dying as a result of our actions.]]> 2022-11-15 16:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385180744 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385200846 This science fiction novel takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which the main character, Lauren, lives in a gated community in what used to be California. Following an attack on her community, Lauren and other survivors from her neighborhood are exposed to the troubles of the outside world, where scarcity and corruption have ravaged old society. The novel explores the intersection of socioeconomic class and climate injustice and the ways that it most effects those in poverty.]]> 2022-11-15 17:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385200846 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385211416 This movie depicts a world in which, following a series of natural disasters, world leaders and scientists come together to implement a satellite system that is able to control and stabilize the world's climate. However, when the man-made system starts attacking itself, they must combat the monster that they created. The movie highlights our immobility when it comes to climate action, as well as the ways that our actions are affecting our world around us.]]> 2022-11-15 17:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385211416 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385323934 This book is set in an apocalyptic world where a series of hurricanes along the Gulf Coast precede an outbreak of a new disease, called Delta Fever. The whole area is under quarantine, and after years of isolation, the rest of the world has assumed the region has been wiped out. But a new, primitive society has emerged. The book highlights the connection between ecological health and bodily health and the way we are affected by our physical environment, as well as the way that human nature plays a role in survival and our reactions to adversity.]]> 2022-11-15 18:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385323934 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385341649 The world has been destroyed by global warming, and Indigenous First Nation people are being hunted for their bone marrow, which contains a rare and powerful trait: the ability to dream. Frenchie and his band of companions must fight for survival as they make their way to a place of asylum in the old lands up north. The novel highlights the ways that western civilization is ruining the world through over-consumption and materialization, as well as the way that it has historically disenfranchised Indigenous people and destroyed their ancestral land. (There's a deeper history to that as well, in which native people were forced to work in mines and other dangerous environments in the west, forced to be exposed to radiation in their communities when the reservation land they were pushed onto were used as nuclear weapon testing sites during the cold war and probably still today. This is not talked about enough).]]> 2022-11-15 18:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385341649 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385354484 Feeling unwell on a cruise vacation, Jilda is left behind by her family when they leave the ship to visit an island. While they are away, the cruise ship is commandeered by refugees escaping their island, which is flooding due to climate change. The book shows issues such as overcrowding and depleting resources as people desperately try to survive on this crowded ship that is not equipped to sustain such a population.]]> 2022-11-15 18:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385354484 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385387182 This song speaks about global warming, climate deniers, overpopulation, and the need to change in a very accessible way. Childish Gambino's lyrics convey a strong message about the urgency of climate change within a very popular genre that reaches a very large young population.]]> 2022-11-15 19:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385387182 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385391685 Why is climate change a social justice issue that also encompasses wealth inequality and privilege?]]> 2022-11-15 19:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385391685 shelletj https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385395288 What are the steps we can take to try to combat climate change? Who really has the most power to affect change?]]> 2022-11-15 19:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shelletj/8ofd17qxcxgrirli/wish/2385395288