The reason why ecological issues are brought up so heavily for the first time is because there is a real possibility that people can't play anymore. This is the truth, one should be well aware that nature possesses the greatest power. This can be said all the way up to fire in relation to Prometheus, humans have always gotten the most powerful force they can get from nature, from fire to advanced nuclear energy, we have never surpassed nature.
As human beings go deeper into nature step by step, we have been continuously gaining stronger power from it, from the birth of fire to the creation of various tools. The discovery of fire accelerated the evolution of human beings, and the production of tools was the basis for the growth of families and nations. Diseases that have prevailed for centuries have propelled people's beliefs. Later, there was the use of steam and electricity, and these forces changed the order of human society. The imbalance of power between regions has led to wars, and diseases have led to panic. These forces from nature have created and destroyed us. People, towards nature, should not raise their heads high.
For a long time in the 20th century, we were concerned with the theory of relativity, all kinds of problems arising from different social structures, and at the same time, what we called productivity was developing rapidly. In fact this is the thing that gives us the biggest problem. Quantum theory and relativity introduce us to the most microscopic and macroscopic worlds, but they are not the biggest theories that directly sustain social life. Society is a state that arises after human beings live in groups. It affects everyone who lives in it. This thing called society has caused many problems. There are racial problems among different groups of people; there are moral and legal problems among people in a race; there are various possible relationships between specific two people; and for a single person, social influences will also produce various problems; In the end, each person combines and participates in society, and there are issues of unity and opposition in the middle. On top of this, human beings have established systems at all levels, from basic individual rights and interests of equality and freedom, to social contracts, to democracy, and now there is a tendency to shift like state dictatorship. These are like games that more and more people are playing together. When we play games, we find that we can’t play anymore, and we have to stop these games to pay attention to ecological issues. This is where we're nearing the end of the planet's limits, making us our biggest problem. Are we really going to stop playing?
I have lived in Fujian Province on the southeast coast for a long time, and the typhoons in the past two years have become more and more ferocious. The data in the movie is up to 2005, and there is a high temperature of 50°C in India, there is Hurricane Katrina, and there is a snow top that is about to disappear from Kilimanjaro. What I can directly feel is a typhoon with a 17-level wind blowing from the Pacific Ocean. All this is not accidental. The reason is the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect increases Earth's surface temperature, altering the Earth's water cycle and allowing more water to evaporate. Both typhoons and hurricanes are formed by the evaporation of sea water. The higher the temperature, the stronger the storm.
The rise in temperature will also cause large areas of continental ice caps to melt. A sentence in the movie is very scary. If the Himalayas, the large ice block that supports 40% of the earth's population, disappears.
These will rearrange people's lives, redistributing land and sea, just as continental drift did long, long ago. When the earth under the feet of human beings begins to change, it is bound to be a new drama arranged by human beings for themselves. Think about it, some people are in a storm, and some people seem to be living in the desert. After shuffling the cards again, nature has the ability to tear down the stage of human beings and build a new one.
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