"Human being can only survive when the environment around us thrive, too. If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us. "
Standing on the ruins of Chernobyl, David wants us to tell what he has experienced in his life. From the joy and expectation when I first entered nature, to the worries and regrets about the extinction and decline of natural habitats and creatures. The history of mankind is full of exploitation.
Since I was a child, I have realized that human beings are nothing more than a species on the earth, a kind of advanced animal; compared with the hundreds of millions of years of life on earth, human beings are just fleeting existence. However, industrialization, urbanization, and technologicalization have made the relationship between mankind and nature more and more tense; and mankind is eroding large areas of land, sea and sky due to greed, desire, arrogance, arrogance, and self-interest, and will affect countless Pushing life to the brink of extinction will eventually deplete the foundation on which we live.
With technological innovation, human society seems to be a prosperous scene; many people have begun to expand themselves, thinking that they have superior intelligence and are omnipotent. It is too easy for us to forget that everything we have depends on other lives and substances. Our greed and selfishness will only drive us into desperation in the end.
Isn't the recent global new crown epidemic and large-scale wildfires a wake-up call to mankind? When can human beings be proud of the top of the food chain?
Two completely different futures are mentioned in the film: if no action is taken, the earth will be reduced to purgatory, a dead silence, it will really be a shocking disaster film. But if human beings can realize their faults and start to act, by changing our diet, lifestyle and ideas, respecting resources and using them in a reasonable and controlled manner, perhaps we can live in harmony with nature and share the earth.
At the end of the film, several key measures are mentioned, such as enhancing public health services and universal education, preventing blind births and controlling the population. It is indeed very necessary. As an educator, universal environmental protection education should be the top priority.
At the end of the film, the lush trees growing on the ruins symbolize the tenacious vitality of nature. It is a power above human beings, a power that nurtures humans. "We must move from being apart from nature to being a part of nature once again."
Except for humility, we can't keep anything.
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