The Highly-Illustrated Screenplay Narrative

   Novels and story collections published by Cdn houses tend to hew to a narrow scope of themes. Does it have to be that way? CanLit and Genre Fiction: Are We Conceptually Self-Limiting? https://youtu.be/IM6ANhJ872M

   #wargasm #warecology #militarism #militarypollution The tremendous bravery of the Ukrainian people is stirring to see. But these types of conflicts increase significantly military budgets and therefore pollution, even after the fighting has stopped. Why not reduce military budgets drastically and therefore reduce the likelihood of these sorts of conflicts between in the first place? And if there are quite a few people who agree with this point of view, why doesn’t the topic trend more frequently on social media? * Pollution Wars 1 (https://youtu.be/t90a8DoIW3Q) is a short, non-videopoem piece by Finn Harvor, uploaded in early 2022. It functions more as a direct, essayistic or commentary-style video rather than one of his hybrid literary/experimental “authorial movies” or videopoems. The video explicitly links industrialism, militarism, and environmental pollution. Harvor argues that wars and heightened military budgets dramatically increase pollution—not only during active ...

   The War on Smog, part two https://youtu.be/bdQWvMQrs0A This is a short experimental moviepoem (poetry film, ~1 minute) by Finn Harvor, part of his ongoing “The War on Smog” series. It highlights the environmental paradox of militarism: militaries are justified as protectors of nations and people, yet their operations are among the largest polluters on the planet, actively worsening the climate crisis and making the world less livable. The piece confronts the irony of “immense defense budgets” causing a “slow, borderless catastrophe.” Key lines from the series (including this installment) include: “The big planners / Are sure / Whatever they do / Is a form of tough minded / Solution….” It questions whether militaries can “protect us from an unliveable planet” when their training, wars, fuel consumption, weapons production, and logistics emit massive amounts of greenhouse gases, create toxic pollution, and contribute to smog, wildfires, rising seas, and systemic environmental...

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 Trump is a danger to the world. Why isn’t the Democratic leadership doing more to organize protests? #TrumpDanger #DefendDemocracyNow #WhereAreTheDems #ActNowDemocrats #DemLeadership #StopAuthoritarianism #DemocracyInPeril Full video at YouTube:  https://youtube.com/shorts/lXcd0JuWNlM?feature=share