For You , For Me and For Our "HOME"

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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

Yann Arthus Bertrand

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.

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?

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?”

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.