The 11th Hour

The movie, Dirt, brings our attention to the Earth’s most precious resource and one for which no life could exist without it, and that is dirt! Whether it is modern agricultural practices or altering natural landscapes, dirt is being depleted of its valuable nutrients and cannot be replaced overnight. Our relationship with dirt has been lost and unless we takes steps to be reconnected and view it as a critical life sustaining precious resource, our planet will suffer and life as we know it will eventually die.

While a good portion of his work covers the damage that has already surfaced Earth, he proposes a plethora of theories regarding what the future may look like. Although the element of terror is part of his technique in persuading his audience into caring about the pressing issue of climate change, it is not scientifically accurate—nobody can predict future events with complete assurance. In addition to this, if there is one thing to take away from this book, it is that Bill McKibben eats, sleeps, and breathes the project of decreasing the carbon dioxide molecules to 350 parts per million—a safe ratio. While it is true that at the beginning of civilization, our atmosphere contained only 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide, which is a lot lower than it is now, McKibben is the founder of 350.org. This environmental organization is his personal project which aims to equalize the unsafe ratio that currently exists. Due to his personal investment in the organization, it seems as though McKibben is biased towards this movement which is why it is so prioritized in his

Growing up, my parents taught me many lessons two of which I feel are appropriate for this context. The first is that friendly competition is healthy, the second is that teamwork is a critical skill for the real world. The wonderful thing about The Eleventh Hour is that it allows me the opportunity to teach both these lessons in a classroom setting in a fun and interactive manner children will enjoy. As stated in the summary, this book presents a mystery and using hidden clues within the illustration, the reader must work to find who the culprit it. Creating a lesson around competition and teamwork, I would have the students number off and divide into groups of four or five depending on the size of the class. After reading the book as a class,

In modern America few problems prove to be as fundamentally problematic as the theory of human induced global warming. Its repeated coverage from within the media and political arena are influencing people worldwide, putting those who think differently in an outcast shadow. The truth of the matter is, to not believe in human induced global warming has become politically incorrect and unacceptable in the public eye. The theory of human induced global warming can be defined as the rise in temperature through human pollution of greenhouse gases resulting in catastrophic alterations in the earth 's environment. However, human pollution of greenhouse gases is so minor that it is not a contribution to the

It is often said that humans are the largest threat to Earth, but not because of violence between one another. Humans are the largest threat to Earth because we as a species pollute the air, land, and water of the very planet we call home. Without Earth all life as we know it will cease to exist. Global warming is the product of the pollutants created by mankind. If mankind as a whole does not change its ways we will ruin our one and only planet that is suitable to sustain life. In Warm, Warmer, Warmest an article by Nicholas D. Kristof argues that that “stopping global warming should be the paramount struggle of our time”(Warmer). While researching this topic I used multiple resources to better understand what Nicholas Kristof is explaining in his article. I first looked at a government run website that helped explain global warming and how it is affecting us today. Then I looked at news articles from different news organizations. Lastly I watched a video that explained why we can no longer ignore global warming. All of those resources helped me better understand my research topic and I feel that I have gained more knowledge about global warming.

In the movie by PBS, “Global Warming: The Signs and the Science” it discusses how our planet is affected by global warming and some potential consequences we will encounter because of the effects of Global Warming. It also describes different strategies that could help reduce greenhouse emissions.

A. Attention Getter – The uninhabitable Earth, is what we`ll soon be called. Anticipating what the exact effects will be on mankind and other living organisms on planet Earth is tricky, however, a continuously growing amount of evidence suggest that it will be intense. In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there's a more than 95 percent probability that human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet.

Amidst the melodramatic narratives and heightened realism of these cinematic texts, global warming becomes something that audiences can grasp onto and wonder if perhaps this is what their world might actually look like in the not-too-distant future. (Rust, 26)

The film did very well on giving the reader facts and logic behind each statement. They gave proof behind this as well with visual evidence that global warming is very real. There were many statements that were based on facts and what was happening to glaciers as global warming was happening. Another thing that the film did well on was giving the reader emotions and feels throughout the documentary. They delivered certain scenes that caught the eye such as showing different habitats being melted and destroyed by global warming.

The Authors main point is that the world that we all know or think we know exists no longer. Bill McKibben talks about the infamous picture of Earth that makes it look as though it is rising in a black sky, is not the earth that exists today. He states that humans, “by burning fossil fuel, have raised the temperature of the planet nearly a degree Celsius” (McKibben, 2010). And it is this human implication that has caused the world to exhibit strange and completely altering affects. Because of the fossil fuel consumption of the people on Earth we are now seeing ice sheets melting at an unprecedented rate of 40% more (a recorded 1.1 million square miles smaller). We are witnessing rain droughts in places like northern China who didn’t experience rain for a hundred days, which is a

According to the video, we are reaching the limits of what the earth can sustain us. The earth needs an equilibrium that we are breaking with our consumption habits and economic system that we really cannot understand and no longer work. The complex systems that we live in (e.g. global economy) are affecting us. This is kind of discussing what we learned in chapter 12 that there is a disjointed incrementalism that is we want to take everything apart with all the countries, when we are now living in a global world and market that affect us. The trial and error way that our government wants to make changes is not working, we need to use the research and apply it in our global market for changes to happen. If the environment of one place

Phrases such as “climate change” and “global warming” are often thrown around on the news and in politics; however their meaning and significance was never clear to me. I enjoyed my reading of the Susan Solomon interview because, it was very informative and easy to understand. Solomon’s outstanding achievements as a female scientist are inspiring and remarkable. Her groundbreaking studies in Antarctica concerning the ozone hole, prove to us how important it is to take care of our planet. Human produced substances known as CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) have damaged our ozone beyond repair. It is hard to believe that humans can be so careless as to destroy their own Earth. Thankfully, “the nations of the world agreed to stop producing CFCs” in 1987.

My beliefs upon global warming is that it is a very serious matter that should not be taken lightly. I chose global warming as the topic of my research paper to raise awareness of the deadly effects that the Earth’s warming can cause. Many people go about their day not realizing how much energy they are omitting and how much of that energy contributes to the growth of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It should be the duty of every individual to recognize their involvement in the Earth’s warming and what they can do to reduce it. I personally believe that the Earth provides for living organisms but it should not be taken for granted. With many years of drilling for fossil fuels and polluting the Earth I believe it is well overdue

Due to modern-day industrial activities, environmental issues continue to occur including, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves. Unfortunately, however, for the past decade scientists have been warning the public of climate change but have hardly made any progress to express the urgency of the matter, all of which was discussed in the 2006 documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Subsequently, the world has fallen short on implementing serious industrial change. On the contrary, the trailer for “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”, published by Paramount Pictures under the direction of Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, effectively convinces its audience to watch the documentary by conveying the devastating effects of

Images of the way we embellished our planet with innovation, love and courage were juxtaposed with images of the blood, scars, and destruction we also paint our planet with. This video made me wonder how humans will proceed in the future with the issue of climate change. Will we come to our senses and mitigate the damage caused by our wrongdoings to our only home? Or will we continue to display the human race as a contradictory race, one that is conceited and yet will be its own downfall? I believe Sagan made this video to encourage us to look at all the things humans have done in the past and remind us that we may be the generation that continues or exterminates our existence and renders all efforts and history void. He probably wanted to remind us of our small, unimportant world and how it's our duty to protect and sustain life on it since it is the only life we know. We are encouraged to humble ourselves because we are not the center of the universe, and there's no one out there to pity or remember the parasitic human race. At the moment our future seems