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CU students screen short flicks on climate change

From left, Carson McDonough, Patrick McGlynn and Matthew McAllister produced films as part of their "climate change and video production" class at the University of Colorado | DailyCamera.com

Students from the University of Colorado who participated in a class on film and climate change will screen their own global warming flicks tonight on campus.

From the Daily Camera:

Matthew McAllister flips off the lights when he leaves his dorm room. He refills his water bottle instead of buying plastic ones, and he rations himself one paper towel when he dries his hands.

But a single flight to Washington, D.C., that he took this semester for a political science course canceled out his efforts, the University of Colorado student says.

He calculates that he would need to recycle 708 aluminum cans to offset his portion of the carbon dioxide emitted by the plane.

“While I would like to think these small, conscious efforts make a difference, the truth is I know they don’t,” McAllister says.

For a course on film and climate change, McAllister produced a short video about the challenges he has with his carbon footprint, as well as environmental equality. (His portion of CO2 for the plane trip was about the same amount that an average person in Tanzania uses all year).

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