The 11th hour

    

In this blog I will discuss a movie: The 11^th Hour.  In this movie, many experts from different fields tell us that we are destroying our only home—the earth, through describing the great damage of global warming bringing to the earth. Global warming is resulted from the green house gases, especially the carbon dioxide. The majority of carbon dioxide comes from the use of fossil fuel. As the product of science, fossil fuel is widely used for the development of our economy, but also does great harm to our environment. For instance, drought, floods, fire and tornados are the impact of global warming.  It’s indicated that all the situations will be worse if we don’t take action to lessen the global warming as well as other environmental pollutions. Although it’s important to develop the economy, we cannot neglect the importance of protecting the nature.  According to a speaker in the movie, we can’t be separated from nature because environment is the basis of our economy. That is to say, the environmental protection is essential to the development of our economy.  Because all the resources we use to develop our economy are from the nature, the development of economy is limited by the nature.  If our nature is destroyed, how can we promote our economy? 

The movie also reminds me of the development of meat industry in the United States. Many animal factories of meat industry that raise and kill animals in the assembly industrial model are built up in some rural communities.  In order to promote the development of the local economy, the governments relax the regulations for the corporations even though these animal factories pollute the environment seriously. Instead of obtaining the rapid development of its economy, the severe pollutions of the local environment make the rural communities lose other opportunities to develop its economy in the long term. Undoubtedly, developing our economy based on the damage of environment is killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

 Generally speaking, this movie sounds the alarm that we should take measure to protect our environment.  For example, we can reduce the use of fossil fuels and promote the recycle of industrial materials and so on. It’s time for us to save the earth.