mr. al gore, who used to be the next president for the united states, carefully discussed various reasons as to why our environment now - the world at large - is heading for a downward spiral.
if you do not have the slightest concern for the future generations, you probably wouldn't care. but it is difficult not to.
it basically sheds light on a crisis that we all will be victims of - as well as its culprits - the climate crisis.
the science depicted in the film was just so immense and undeniable, that it leaves its audience overwhelmed and flabbergasted - all for the scariest reasons.
so what is this crisis?
when i was in fourth grade and was studying environmental science, one of the things that my teacher discussed was that of global warming - and what stuck with me was a simple idea of what already has started happening at that time - that earth's atmosphere is changing and that the ozone layer has a hole.
in this day and age, we all have made global warming truly universal. we are all accountable for it. we are all responsible for it.
we are all affected and will be doomed if we do not begin understanding what it truly is...and start taking the necessary steps to help one another save what can be saved.
normally, carbon dioxide and other gasses are trapped in the earth's atmosphere to keep the temperature livable. what happened was that irresponsible burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) has exponentially increased the CO2 in our atmosphere - ergo, causing for the earth's temperature to rise.
what's alarming is that the drastic change in the climate has resulted to a lot of things, some are:
- the ice caps in the arctic and antartic are melting that the polar bears drown - all because they can't find a stable land of ice to stay in. they would swim for up to 60 miles looking for it.
- because the oceans are warmer now, typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes occur more often
- heat waves increased in frequency and intensity
- more and more species of animals and plants are driven to extinction
mr. gore remains to be an optimist about this battle. and i agree with him. we can rectify this issue by taking action now. mere alteration in our daily routines can add up to a big differences in helping humankind survive and thrive.
i felt a great moral compulsion to write about what i saw. because i want to reach out to as many people as possible...to share an awareness about the long-standing conflict between earth and us, humans - and the reality that we never can escape nature's wrath.
when you think of it, nothing could really be more frightful than losing something that you really care about.
read more about the 10 simple tips that can reduce our impact to this crisis:
www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/pdf/10things.pdf
1 comments:
you've watched it din pala..
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