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Yann Arthus Bertrand's 120 minutes documentary about planet earth and its system is such a beautiful piece of art and information. Released on 5th June 2009 , the video shows spectacular Arial shots and angles of the planet. I strongly recommend , its a one movie that is worth your 100 hollyhood movies. don't forget to watch!!! and below you can read My reflection.
Formation
of planet Earth is referred to as a miracle of the universe because of its
ability to sustain life. Initially the planet did not look anything like what
it has become now. Volcanic eruptions are one of the causes of shaping our
planet. History reads that earth was
initially just a molten hot ball of fire that was formed when millions of
atomic particles combined. In its birthing process the molten from the volcanic
eruption cooled down and created a solid crust
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After
the solidification of the earth crust the volcanic gases filled the earth. It
was not possible for life form to survive without oxygen but the law of nature
balances them.
Archaea
was the first life form that survived in the hot springs. The tiny microorganism tapped carbon from the
atmosphere and dissolved in the ocean clearing open spaces in the
atmosphere. Algae were the first living
species of plant kingdom that filled the spaces with oxygen. Earth was able to
sustain water in the liquid form because it lies at a right distance from the
sun to condense the water vapor.
It took
4 billion years for trees to form. Trees could tap light energy just like the
Sino bacteria’s were able to tap carbon.
The very
answer to the question ‘How humans changed the Earth?’ is fairly stated by the
narrator in the opening scene of the “HOME” video. Although we Homo sapiens
came into existence way later than the existence of earth, “we have managed to
disrupt the balance that is essential to life.” It indicates that the time we
are taking to destroy is faster than the time it took for the planet to be
created.
Homo
Sapiens are the youngest species to come
into existence that started as hunters and gatherers but with time and
exposure our range of hunting shifted
from hunting animals to hunting new technologies for an easy lifestyle and from
gathering of berries to gathering ideas that will boom a nation’s economy or
looking for a new planet.
The
growth of our species began on the banks of rivers, oceans and coastal areas.
Some civilization include along Yangtse
River in China or the Indus Valley in India. The earlier roles of every species
were to survive. Human fed on natural found edibles until they could figure out
the use of land and the beauty of tilling the land to cultivate food. That is
when agriculture evolved.
Agriculture to manufacture, human beings kept
growing the areas of sufficiency for food to survive. Machineries substituted
human labor force but at the cost of huge oil intake for its operations. Modern
agriculture has been practiced not only for humans to feed but cultivation is
carried in large scale as cattle fodder
too. Petro chemical is seeping into our system in soil water and atmosphere
through pesticides and fertilizers
Human beings existence has changes the face of
the Earth till date and the element of surprise of what will happen in the
future is unpredictable considering the abilities of human brain. Earlier in
the beginning of the earth formation it is said that the volcanos were
responsible for shaping the landscape of the earth but after the introduction
of Homo sapiens not only the land scape, the aerospace and the hydrospace has
also been redesigned by our species to yield and exploit resources.
“All species have a role to play” but our species
is dominating the others. Humans have managed to conquer a large territory with
our growing population. With populating growing we also need enough food to
feed the population. Malthusian theory
of population proposes that the food production grows at an arithmetic rate
while the population is growing at a geometric rate. Humans have extended the
use of land, air and water exceeding the carrying capacity.
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| Ariel view of the mountains |
The land is now seen in two dimensions, one called the city and another, the country. Humans were able to allude a replica of a natural forest to a concrete jungle which is called the CITY. We can find tall skyscrapers and highways that exhibit the man made concrete carnival. It is strange that we humans have been able to build the tallest building in the world like the Bruj Khalifa in Dubai but the irony is that more than half of that building is unoccupied. So there is no point in building so tall when no one can afford to live there?
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| As Happy as a Whale |
All the nations have been exploiting their
energies and in the fight of power it has caused so much chaos. Diminishing
resource has led to social deprivation to safe drinking water and electricity.
On the other hand hunger and poverty is killing numbers of people. On a global
scale we have disrupted the climatic balance and the consequences are no longer
unknown to us. The arctic ice sheet is thinning and causing the water levels to rise in the
oceans. The glaciers are receding, adding more water to the ocean.
The Video HOME is an autobiography of planet
earth. Its shows the evolution of a hot molten fire ball to an overcrowded
planet battling to survive its species and sustain the left overs of the mother
Earth. “A trap is a trap only for creatures which cannot solve the problem that
it sets”-Sir Geoffery Vivkers. Lots of countries have manages to give justice
to the nature by reserving lands dedicating to conserve the nature while some
have managed to be a responsible consumer . The ultimate source of energy is
looked back to the sun and with artificial process we are able to tap solar
energy, just like the plants. It’s not too late to reflect on our past and move
into the future with solutions that we are already equipped with but yet to
implement. “What are we waiting for?”
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| Expansion of our species |
I loved the video as it carries a strong message
about the journey of planet Earth and it also shows the convex future image if
we do not change our system of interaction with our nature and environment. The
visuals are very beautiful and the graphics are perfect guidance to the
visuals. The narrator uses so many beautiful metaphors that gave a dramatic
effect of the visuals and the meaning of the words. For example “Trees are a pinecal
of perfect living sculpture. They defy gravity. They are the only natural
element in perpetual movement towards the sky.”
In a nutshell it is an eye opener or as the experts
coined the term "Anthroposphere" the only sphere that will survive the longest
of all because at the rate of which they have managed to grown it’s a suicide
mission for "Anthroposphere" itself.
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