"Corals fluoresce, they produce chemical sunscreens to protect themselves from heat... It's nature's most beautiful transformation, an unbelievably beautiful death stage... It's as if the corals are saying, 'Look at me, please pay attention' I……"
Seeing this, the tears could not stop. Large swathes of colorful coral bloomed strangely before bleaching, as if trying to save the most beautiful appearance before dying... Such a tragic moment completely shook my heart tonight.
The film was very eye-catching from the start, with a fun and cheerful coral scientist happily explaining what corals and polyps are to the camera, accompanied by a lot of beautiful photos of coral reefs (btw seems to have cured my intensive phobia ), I took a lot of notes seriously. "Don't care about the complexity of the appearance, we will take the delicate and silent route." - Hey, it's obvious that your appearance is also very dazzling, okay?
Gradually learned that coral reefs are like a complex and diverse urban life body, which generously accepts so many different forms while being self-sufficient (plant photosynthesis in the body allows it to have its own "food processing factory"). Life is among them, a prosperous, what a wonderful family! Moreover, its importance is enough to become the basis of the entire ocean and even the earth's ecosystem, animal reproduction, human food sources, and even affect human cultural life and economic methods, medicines , breakwaters... the ocean without coral is like land without forest.
When Zach first appeared, he was just an equipment technician who looked a little cute. I didn't expect him to be the soul of the whole film... He showed the camera his aquarium, which was full of corals, not even Fish... Turns out he's an avid coral nerd. He introduced a variety of coral species. He said that as long as the environment is well controlled, corals have no lifespan and can survive forever... He is obsessed with telling the appearance of corals seriously, and turning over in order to prevent the data line from breaking. The appearance of diving into the sea with a straw hat hanging by the side of the boat is really cute and cool.
As the space unfolded, Zack's team began to study the establishment of time-lapse cameras on the seabed, in order to photograph the coral's biggest existential crisis - the process of bleaching. The tone began to get heavier, the equipment entered the water, the lens was out of focus, resulting in two months of white shooting, watching the coral group die beside him, Zach held the coral corpse covered with seaweed ash in his hand, "This is my hardest dive. Experience" - Zach's notebook under the sea silently protested. At the meeting, Zach showed the pictures they took with their hands-on time-lapse photography. The first few pictures were still vivid and gorgeous coral reefs, and the next few pictures were a lifeless "grave"... The smiles on everyone's faces followed the coral reefs. The successive whitening gradually disappeared, shock, anxiety, sadness and stinging pain mixed in my heart, and tears kept falling.
The cause of coral bleaching is also the key to giving me a better understanding of climate change. It turns out that when we burn fossil fuels, carbon dioxide rises to the atmosphere, because carbon dioxide has the property of trapping hot gas, so the more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the more thermal energy there is on the earth, "It's like stuffing excess wool in in a sweater." However, 93% of the trapped heat entered the ocean. If the ocean does not absorb this heat energy, the average surface temperature will reach 50 degrees, but the ocean absorbs a lot of heat energy, and its own temperature regulation will be unbalanced. If the ocean rises by 2 degrees, the coral will bleach and die because it cannot adapt to the high temperature. ... In other words, life on this earth originated from the ocean, and the ocean has a fever in order to protect its own children... I feel so distressed, I finally realized why so many people call for attention to the issue of global warming, in fact, it is Mother to save all our living organisms.
It's like trying to do something! This world is so beautiful, but it is going faster and faster on the road of destruction. If we don't do something, it is really too late... Human beings evolve faster in intelligence, and they should be more responsible for protecting our planet. Big, great responsibility, instead of doing the opposite, destroying your own home with your own ignorant arrogance.
Last two paragraphs with tears.
"Do we need forests? Do we need trees? Do we need coral reefs? Or can we live in ashes?"
"I'm so glad I'm not your age. When I saw the Great Barrier Reef being destroyed, I was mentally prepared. It's my favorite thing in my life...in the physical world. I've been diving for 45 years. , I'm definitely not going to stop doing this until I'm old (outrageous laughter), I'll keep doing it. As long as I can still influence people, I'll do it. Because we have to do it, we have no choice. You You have to keep going or you won't like yourself when you're old. You'll like yourself more if you can say "I've tried to turn things around", "maybe I did influence people"...don't let anything stop you ." —Charlie Veron, an aged, to a frustrated Zach. At that moment, I was reminded of Richard O'Barry in Dolphin Cove, who rushed into the venue with the monitor hanging around his neck and stood on the street to greet the crowd.
People with great love are always pure and always full of courage.
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