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Monthly topic report : Environmental issues in Films and Books . How film industry affects the environment ? |
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by Dat Hua | 28-01-2020 21:16
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Every movie and TV show depends on electricians, carpenters, designers, and all sorts of other specialized laborers and artisans working in offices and workshops in support of actors, writers, directors, and camerapeople. Though we tend not to think of the entertainment industry as an industry, with all the outputs that that entails, it does a significant amount of environmental damage. According to BAFTA, the British film organization, a single hour of television produced in the U.K.—fiction or nonfiction—produces 13 metric tons of carbon dioxide. That’s nearly as much CO2 as an average American generates in a year. A 2006 UCLA study found that the California film and television industry created 8.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide; the number for the U.S. film and TV industry as a whole was 15 million tons.
The problem is how to make going green an appealing prospect for individual producers who are often working outside of the aforementioned studio campuses and lots. One answer is to point out that green practices save money: According to the Green Production Guide from the Producers Guild of America, replacing plastic water bottles with refillable water tanks and compostable cups would save a crew of 100 more than $5,000 per 60 days of work. Another tactic O’Brien envisions is lobbying major film markets like California and New York to give tax credits to green productions akin to the tax credits these states offer productions for in-state filming. As the #MeToo scandals and the recent conversations about on- and off-screen diversity have shown, for all of Hollywood's reputation as a liberal industry, it remains resistant to change, even when its longstanding practices are doing demonstrable damage. So those demanding that it clean up its act—literally—expect to have a challenge in pushing producers and executives to embrace sustainability. “Hollywood is obviously an enormous cultural force of change, but it's also very stuck in its ways,” O’Brien said. “It usually takes a huge controversy in order for this industry to change. [Hollywood]'s a very naturally… exploitative industry of people, of resources. It has that reputation for a reason.”
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8 Comments
Greetings
I do hope you are all good there.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful report!!
Keep writing and sharing us your informative report!!!
Hope to read more from you.
Green cheers
Regards,
Jasmine karki
Posted 18-02-2020 20:57
Hello Dat
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about Environmental issues in Films and Books . How film industry affects the environment ?
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 03-02-2020 18:00
Hello Dat
This is a great report with keen points. Considering the huge size of the film industry around the world, its impact on the environment cannot be neglected. Fortunately, I can see some actions that are being implemented to reduce the damage to the environment.
I really like the way you hyperlinked some statistical information to the actual report where you got the information. It linked me to the other great references.
Thank you for the insightful and informative report!
Posted 30-01-2020 12:18
Hey Dat!
It's your mentor Lisa.
Wow, I never thought this month's topic in this way.
I mean sure, the giant film industry must have some effect on the environment but who would've imagined it to have such a huge influence!
I think this is a great perspective to look at the topic and I think all these development of entertainment, we all have been taking it for granted. I think it's time that we change our way of consuming the film so that the way of producing it could change in a more sustainable way.
Great view, great article!
Nice job!!!
Posted 29-01-2020 16:57
Hello Dat,
I really appreciate your thought,
You had brought such a great topic here, it is really a new topic for me too,
Keep writing such a great report!!!
Yours,
Sandhya
Posted 29-01-2020 13:00
Greetings dat
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report
This is entirely a new topic for me. Very well written.
I hope to read more reports from you
Green cheers
Regards
Asmita Gaire
Posted 29-01-2020 11:41
Thanks.
Posted 29-01-2020 02:17
Thanks!
Posted 28-01-2020 21:42