November 18, 2016 - 00:12
As the World Collapses
- Approach towards the subject of Global Warming
- Future approach (CWC)
- Genre- historical fiction- unorthodox method of a history text from the future
- Talking about how Global warming had already led to the end of the civilization
- It could not be stopped due to the ignorance and lack of action by the people
- Future approach (CWC)
- Present approach (ATWB)
- Genre- graphic novel set in current day
- Global warming approached as if it could be stopped
- Approached as if the characters would not be directly affected by it
- Not seen by humans as a threat to their survival
- Seems like there is a possibility of stopping it as long as humans embrace nature and try to fight against the corporate government
- Parallels between CWC and ATWB
- Bananabelle and Kranti are Type II errors
- “Type II error the conceptual mistake of rejecting as false something that is true. In the twentieth century it was believed that a type I error was worse than a type II error. The rejection of climate change proved the fallacy of the belief” (Oreskes and Conway 62)
- Bananabelle and Kranti are human girls with two very different beliefs that reflect Type II errors
- Bananabelle- rejects the idea that one cannot help stop climate change through individual actions
- She believes that through a list (most likely provided by the government) of things that she as an individual does can help stop climate change (Jensen and McMillian 5)
- Bananabelle- rejects the idea that one cannot help stop climate change through individual actions
- Kranti- rejects the idea that doing small things on an individual level can help stop global warming in any sense
- She believe that doing individual things to help reduce human’s environmental impact will not help stop/ reduce climate change at all (Jensen and McMillian 16)
- The answer is in a balance of both of these girls’ views, but not in either one alone
- Bananabelle and Kranti are Type II errors
- Bunnista/nature and the President/corporations are Type I errors
- “Type I error The conceptual mistake of accepting a truth as something that is false. Both type I and type II errors are wrong, but in the twentieth century it was believed that a type I error was worth than a type II error” (Oreskes and Conway 62)
- Bunnista/nature and the President/corporations are characters represented with very extremist views which resemble type I errors
- Bunnista/nature- believes the ‘truth’ that humanity can keep their advancements and still reduce climate change as false
- Bunnista/nature believe that the only way in which the humans can reduce climate change is to destroy all of their advancements (Jensen and McMillian 151)
- Ecoterrorism with Bunnista (Jensen and McMillian 125)
- Destroying a research lab that could have had been making very important scientist discoveries (Jensen and McMillian 128)
- Ecoterrorism with Bunnista (Jensen and McMillian 125)
- President/corporations – believes that global warming isn’t real/ isn’t an issue that should be worried about
- President/corporations believe in making money for themselves. They do not believe in the importance of global warming, especially since it would effect their profits.
- Taking bribes of gold (Jensen and McMillian 45&163&172
- President/corporations believe in making money for themselves. They do not believe in the importance of global warming, especially since it would effect their profits.
- Bunnista/nature believe that the only way in which the humans can reduce climate change is to destroy all of their advancements (Jensen and McMillian 151)
- Bunnista/nature- believes the ‘truth’ that humanity can keep their advancements and still reduce climate change as false
- In both the twentieth century and the setting of ATWB, type I errors were more dangerous than type II errors, but in both CWC and ATWB the dangerousness of each type of error is evident
- What is very interesting is what happens when certain character/errors interact in the book
- Fox and the hippie
- The hippie is a type II error – he believe that just by mediating and praying (no violence or action) that he can stop all the ‘bad’ aspects of life (Jensen and McMillian 32)
- Individual changes
- Tells fox to stop eating the mice because he’s tearing apart families
- Human superiority/ greed/ unwillingness to change
- Similar to Bananabelle
- The fox is a type I error- he believes that only through extreme measures can the bad things in nature be stopped (Jensen and McMillian 34)
- Larger acts of destruction
- Tells hippie that he should burn down all vivisection labs and save the mice
- Nature is nature and human’s intervention is unnatural and the cause for all pain and suffering
- Similar to nature/ Bunnista
- The hippie is a type II error – he believe that just by mediating and praying (no violence or action) that he can stop all the ‘bad’ aspects of life (Jensen and McMillian 32)
- The boy and the crow
- Boy is a type I error who believes anything (even if its false) that the crow and nature tells him
- The crow is a type I error who believes in extreme- humanity/ government is the source of all error
- Interactions between the two propagate both ideas into something extreme (Jensen and McMillian 20 & 66)
- Bananabella and Kranti and nature
- type II errors and type I error
- Interactions between the two type II errors cancel each other out (Jensen and McMillian 144)
- Interactions between type II and type I cause an extreme reaction
- Taking on the opinion that fighting is the best option (Jensen and McMillian 151-155)
- Fox and the hippie
- Symbolism
- Robots are symbols of global warming & human’s treatment of it
- Robots are destroying the earth (Jensen and McMillian 172)
- Government is gaining money from it so turn a blind eye to the destruction it is causing (Jensen and McMillian 45)
- Those who want to fight global warming go to literal war with it (Jensen and McMillian 205)
- Plants and animals are killed during the fight against global warming (Jensen and McMillian 192-193)
- Gold- how money is literally a social construct in outside of society their worth is equivalent to waste (Jensen and McMillian 18)
- Robots are symbols of global warming & human’s treatment of it
- Mental disorders
- alcoholism (Jensen and McMillian 105)
- drugs use (Jensen and McMillian 95)
- Depression (Jensen and McMillian 67)
- hallucination (Jensen and McMillian 20)
- diagnosis of “totally fucked up” (Jensen and McMillian 48)