need to critically review someone else’s view on an environmental topic, as they express it in a documentary film. You may think the film good or bad, say why, give reasons, and persuade the reader to watch the film or that they should not watch it. Dobson argues that ‘greenness’ can be expressed either as environmentalism or ecologism. Adopt one of the two positions and critically review one of the ‘Story of Stuff’ films:
Give clear reasons for arguing as you do, and full citations.
The paper must include two to three external sources (peer-reviewed journal articles or books from commercial or university scholarly presses), but this will attract marks only if those sources are well-incorporated into the paper’s argument (i.e. not ‘tacked on’).
Book: Dobson, A. Green Political Thought. 4th ed. (London: Routledge, 2007)
Video: http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-cap-and-trade/
