[Link to FIU Libraries film stream]

We will watch some key film excerpts in class that showcase the theme of consumption and post-industrial leisure.

1. Please make a list of 5 questions that you see portrayed in the film related to the themes of consumption and the conditions surrounding post-industrial leisure and note the time stamps for each. Bear in mind the roles and understandings of human responsibility for climate change; energy consumption; possessive and accumulative individualism; hyperindividualism; and environmental welfare
2. Write a short paragraph about your understanding of each of those questions or issues.
3. Post your questions and paragraphs to the Course Discussion Forum before class.

SLO related to ethics of energy consumption and responsibility for environmental climate change. Students in Development of International Thought (INR 4013) will appreciate the roles and understandings of human responsibility for climate change and relate energy consumption, possessive and accumulative individualism, and environmental welfare.

Recommended related reading: Cynthia Weber section on "Wall-E" in chapter "Environmentalism" in International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction.