Before the hell.

Lucinda 2022-09-27 21:51:14

I accidentally followed Leonardo's social media account a while ago, and saw that he posted pictures of environmental surveys and the like every day. I thought it was the team building a media image. It wasn't until I saw the preview of this documentary two days ago that I realized that the actor is actually the United Nations environmental ambassador, who is personally promoting the process of environmental protection. In fact, I don't seem to have seen much of Leonardo's movies, but Leonardo, who makes good use of his influence to protect the environment, is really charming. He is particularly cute in the documentary, feeding the orangutans with fruits in one hand and carrots in the other, "Which do you eat? Fruits, right? I know it's fruit, don't you want some carrots?" The

first time I heard about global warming was in elementary school. , but at that time there were very few cars in the small city where I lived, and every evening was red and burning clouds, so things like protecting the environment, saving energy and reducing emissions are just a concept of bonus points. What are the consequences, or what will the consequences have much to do with me. I remember when my mother and I shied away from school and played outside too late without going home, I said tragically: "It's not that I don't want to study, it's that I worry that I won't be able to see such a blue sky and such beautiful burning clouds in the future. "Admittedly this is a funny excuse, but it seems that in the years after graduating elementary school, Huoshaoyun really slowly faded out of my memory.

This thing went from a slogan to a personal concern, probably after reading some science fiction and realizing that the planet isn't boundless and indestructible, it's just a fragile little blue blob in the dark that needs Be well taken care of; it may be that the person I liked in the past was very concerned about the garbage they made, and always carefully classified them, secretly trying to get them together; it may also be the drifting clouds who gave me great comfort in the saddest time. And the sound of big trees swaying their branches and leaves scared me to imagine a world without them.

Scientists have made data charts showing that our carbon emissions have risen sharply in the 21st century, so they have received all kinds of threatening letters, politicians and entrepreneurs speaking in their own interests that global warming is a lie - "Someone actually Proud enough to believe that such a weak human being can change the earth?"

No?

Greenland's snow-capped phantoms are disintegrating, ancient glaciers are melting and revealing black surfaces; undersea ecosystems are being destroyed, corals are dying, a marine scientist coined the term "criminal" to describe our view of the planet. Destruction, human beings are reversing the evolutionary process of nature for tens of millions of years; in order to develop the palm oil industry to supply multinational enterprises with instant noodles, snacks, biscuits and cereals, the Indonesian rainforest, one of the world's three major tropical rainforests, was burned to plant palms, and a forest fire The carbon dioxide emitted is equal to all the carbon emissions produced by the US economy in one day. It’s not just food. The global industrial chain that multinational corporations are pulling together makes me think of a paper I wrote before on “fast fashion”. High street brands have up to fifty-two seasons of new clothes every year, so for the sake of To meet this demand, the compression from cotton planting to production will be accelerated, so many cotton lands will eventually lose their vitality due to being sprayed with too much pesticide auxin. I saw a recent NASA data that this time in early fall is usually the lowest carbon dioxide content of the year, because trees absorb a lot of carbon dioxide after a prosperous summer. When the leaves fall with the depth of autumn, not only will the ability to absorb carbon dioxide become weaker, but also more carbon dioxide will be produced due to the decomposition of the leaves themselves, so the carbon emission in September is usually regarded as the lowest value. Before the Industrial Revolution, our carbon emission was 280ppm, but in September this year, the carbon emission reached the highest point in history, 400ppm, which means that this figure is now our new base point, it will only go up, and it is difficult to go back opportunity.

The film opens with Leonardo showing his "first visual memory" of his "Garden of earthly delights" by Bosch, the father of Dutch painter Surrealism. The print is divided into four parts. The outer wing of the print is "Creation of the world". The dark blue planet is like a sleeping baby, waiting for light and life. Open, the left is called "heaven", a Genesis image full of Christ's meaning, Adam and Eve, animals scattered in the distance, flocks of birds, simple, joyful, and full of hope; the second part is "Garden of earthly delights", the Garden of earthly delights, where the Garden of Eden multiplied After the death of life, the devil's soul is mixed in the excess crowd, the desire grows and flourishes, and the forbidden fruit becomes everyone's toy; until the third picture, "Hell", the sky is dark, there is no blue sky and clear water, the body is no longer cute, and death and destruction dissolve in ghosts. Orange lights and black river.

Hopefully we don't go to the third picture.

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Before the Flood quotes

  • Johann Rockström (professor, environmental science, Stockholm U): We are on average moving towards four degree warming this century. And we haven't been in a four degree warmer world for the past four million years.

  • Gregory Mankiw: If we want to change the President's view on carbon tax

    [or any other specific issue]

    Gregory Mankiw: , we need to change the public's view on carbon tax

    [or any other specific issue]

    Gregory Mankiw: . Politicians, although we call them our elected leaders, are really our elected followers... they DO what the People want them to do. ~ Gregory Mankiw, Harvard economics professor