{"id":1162,"date":"2009-12-02T07:41:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/12\/02\/from-cap-trade-to-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T07:41:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:41:59","slug":"from-cap-trade-to-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/12\/02\/from-cap-trade-to-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"From Cap &amp; Trade to apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pA6FSy6EKrM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Annie Leonard&#8217;s Free Range Studios, whose viral video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/\">The Story of Stuff<\/a> made some <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2009\/05\/story_of_stuff.html\">waves<\/a> a little while back, has now produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/storyofstuff.com\/capandtrade\/\">critique of the Cap and Trade<\/a> system, some version of which is the most likely outcome of negotiations taking place in Copenhagen over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/\">Grist<\/a>, David Roberts claims that the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2009-12-01-annie-leonard-misses-the-mark-her-new-video-story-cap-and-trade\/\">misses its mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But what we really need is videos like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Anthony at <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacology.com\/\">Mediacology<\/a> for alerting me to both of these. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climate-justice-now.org\/\">Climate Justice Now<\/a> for more of the green left&#8217;s take on the topic, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/\">WorldChanging<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/010832.html\">Bill McKibben&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Leonard&#8217;s Free Range Studios, whose viral video The Story of Stuff made some waves a little while back, has now produced a critique of the Cap and Trade system, some version of which is the most likely outcome of negotiations taking place in Copenhagen over the coming days. Over at Grist, David Roberts claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[520594,196,689701,689354],"tags":[16837,4448],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-politics","category-ecoculture","category-media_ecology","category-image_nation","tag-apocalypse","tag-ecopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-iK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7836,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/18\/apocalypse-mashup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":0},"title":"Apocalypse mashup","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's theme in my \"Environmental Literature, Arts, & Media\" class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I'm loosely following Greg Garrard's list of tropes in Ecocriticism, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.) 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Picking up on \u017di\u017eek's ecological musings, Levi Bryant seems more or less in agreement with what I had argued here last week, as does Michael Austin, while Ben Woodard criticizes the narrowing of the \"ecology of concepts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philosophy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philosophy","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/geo_philosophy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8394,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/09\/18\/eco-humanities-glossolalia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":3},"title":"Eco-humanities glossolalia","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just come across the earliest outline I wrote for the course I'm currently teaching (in its third incarnation), \"Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media.\" The course has also turned into a book project I'm working on, which will be a thematic primer to the environmental arts and humanities.\u00a0Both course and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academe&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13434,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2023\/12\/09\/angel-of-apocalyptic-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":4},"title":"Angel of Apocalyptic History","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 9, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"My talk at the recent \"Apocalyptic Anxieties\" conference, at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is available for viewing at the SFU Institute for the Humanities YouTube page, or below. Here is an abstract of the talk: From the Angel of Apocalyptic History to the Optimism of the Will: Climate Hope\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1125,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/09\/23\/mars-attacks-sydney\/","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":5},"title":"Mars attacks Sydney!","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The photos are a bit too beautiful to resist sharing. And the stories taken from the archive of the already screened: \"like scenes from Mad Max,\" \"like waking up on Mars,\" \"like a nuclear winter morning\". . . White urban Australia's dreamtime apocalypse of being taken over by the Outback,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"sydney3.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2009\/09\/sydney3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}