Week of July 15

 

For our activity this week, we watched a movie called "The Human Element".  We then worked in groups and shared the emotions that had surfaced as we watched the movie.  These emotions included sadness and a sense of helplessness.  We then discussed thoughts that we would like to share with our colleagues about the subject matter covered by the film.  We shared stories about how important coal is to communities that some of us were raised in and ideas about how we, as individuals, could decrease carbon emissions (like riding our bikes to work).  Finally, we thought about the film and how effective we thought it was.  We thought the movie did a good job of explaining the background, the culture/history of the different areas and why it is so difficult for people to either leave or fixed the problems.  We thought the videos and images were powerful.  We thought it would be better if the movie could have addressed more solutions.