Finally caught up to episode 7. On the screen, the 91-year-old silver-haired grandfather placed a leatherback turtle, which was born safely under the efforts of the local animal protection organization, on the beach, watching the young and fragile turtle. The new life is driven by instinct, desperately rowing its limbs, and returning to the embrace of the ocean.
Leatherback turtles were listed on the Red List of Rare Species as early as 2013, and at the time, experts estimated that the turtles were likely to become extinct by 2017, based on estimates of the sharp decline in their populations.
One of the important reasons for their sharp decline is that people discard plastic products in the ocean, which make leatherback turtles mistaken for jellyfish and swallow them, causing intestinal blockage and death; and another important reason is excessive predation by humans and drowning.
And now, a month has passed in 2018, we are still lucky enough to see them, what does this mean? This is inseparable from the huge efforts made by many animals and environmentalists-communicating with and confronting indigenous predators in areas with backward cultural levels, developing tourism to transform the income sources of some hunters, and promoting , Infect more people to join the ranks of protectors, and form a positive impact on the next generation through education and dissemination. Various public welfare films and celebrities use their influence to appeal, including the classic work we are watching now.
At first, I watched this documentary, which was almost overwhelmingly popular on the Internet, for the purpose of bringing children to open their horizons and cultivate their interest in nature.
At the beginning, I was really shocked by the beautiful ocean world, the wonderful scenery that has never been explored, the creatures with magical shapes and colors beyond imagination, the amazing wisdom and strategy of the animal world, the touching mother and son Warmth... It is no exaggeration to say that every frame can be used as a screen saver, every second can subvert your cognition, and every story can touch your heart.
But I watched it all the way to the end, but I felt more and more fortunate. I watched it myself and chose to watch this video with my children, because compared with the previous work, this work has given us a far-reaching meaning, and it has also brought us. Deeper thinking.
Probably in the consciousness of many people, such as myself, I think that I am far away from environmental pollution and environmental protection, but when I see the photographer on an isolated island thousands of kilometers away, from the rotting and weathered corpse of a dead wandering albatross. Inside, when I dug out all kinds of snack bags and wrapping papers, I thought that the parents of albatross had to fly thousands of kilometers to feed their babies, but they brought back the threat of life to their babies without knowing it. Looking at the children beside me, my heart is clouded with depression;
When we see the plastic products we throw away into the ocean with the river, they are divided into countless tiny toxic particles, which are eaten by plankton, the small fish eat the plankton, the big fish eat the small fish... Finally, in the bigger marine animals In the body, these toxic substances continue to accumulate in geometric multiples, and then there is a picture of the little dolphin less than one year old, only because of consuming the mother's milk with toxic particles and closing its eyes forever. It is as if I heard the heart-wrenching cry and roar of the parents of the victimized babies in the "poisoned milk powder" incident a few years ago. Some of the "poisoned milk powder" are held accountable, punished, and compensated, but what about the animals? Where is it? It's reasonable...even, they didn't understand the reason from beginning to end, and only fell into the deep pain of losing their children.
Global warming has caused large areas of icebergs to melt. In order to protect the baby from the threat of natural enemies, polar bears, the mother seal had to use her body to lift her baby, who could not swim, to leave the house and look for ice floes to settle on, but large pieces of icebergs escaped. Not to mention the fate of melting, let alone the floating ice? The number of floating ice is getting smaller and smaller, and the lack of habitat means that the mother and son are either starved to death or drowned from exhaustion. The exhausted mother seal has no choice but to go to the floating ice. The same kind on top hit hard...
There are many similar examples, I believe there will always be a scene that touches your heart.
The ocean is so big, so vast, so mysterious, and we humans are really tiny by comparison.
But water droplets can still penetrate rocks, and ants can still break embankments. With the development of industry and the dramatic expansion of the population, the impact of human beings on the marine ecological environment is far beyond our imagination.
We also see in the film that the effects of climate change, plastic pollution and overfishing have permeated every part of the ocean, from the equator to the poles, from urban coasts to uninhabited islands, from plankton to giant white sharks. a corner.
But at the same time, we also saw a glimmer of hope in despair—the film clearly demonstrates the amazing tenacity and vitality of the ocean with the efforts of environmental protection workers and all walks of life. All we have to do is give her a chance to breathe.
Maybe you, like me, feel a little helpless after the film ends. After all, in addition to saving water and electricity, low-carbon travel, and reducing the use of single-use plastic products, it may be difficult for us to influence the decisions of giant companies and governments, or even change them. Many people around me, their personal efforts are somewhat of a sense of powerlessness.
However, when it comes to overfishing, our choices as consumers can bring new hope to some endangered species. After all, if there is no buying and selling, there is no harm.
As Sir Alex said in the final episode: "We have a unique role to play in history, we have never cared so much about what we do to this planet, and we have never had such a power to do something , of course we have a responsibility to care about our blue planet, the future of humanity and all life on earth depends on us."
That's right, everything in nature should belong to every creature that lives on earth, and just as our small harms can be brought together to have such a profound impact on nature, turning small harms into small good deeds, the same It will converge into a warm current, forming a powerful force to bring a positive impact on nature.
Influence the next generation through words and deeds, infect people around you with actions, and make more people aware of the influence of individual power on the environment through propaganda. Every additional person brings more strength and more hope.
What we leave to our children is our own choice.
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