Once, a piece of news in the "Global Times" caught my attention. The Global Humanitarian Forum, an international organization led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, issued a survey report saying: 300,000 people die from climate change every year, and this trend may continue for 20 years, eventually leading to 10% of the world’s population and approximately 600 million people. die. If climate change is not improved, the environmental degradation, natural disasters and human diseases caused by it will become more and more serious. By 2030, there will be 500,000 deaths each year in the world, most of which come from developing countries. I immediately remembered this 2004 film. Even though I watched it N times, yesterday I "reviewed" the news again.
In fact, I have never had a good impression of disaster movies. No matter how realistic the special effects are, the storyline is still fake. Just like "Independence Day", people all over the world can only wait for the President of the United States to single-handedly kill the aliens who invaded the earth to liberate all mankind. snort! Sneer~ Unlike the mysterious themes such as aliens invading the earth, monsters Kuslaxing, and huge meteorites hitting the earth, the meaning of "The Day After Day" is even more thought-provoking. With the continuous improvement of human science and technology, the over-utilization and predatory development of nature has reached a heinous stage. Mankind is trying to build a prosperous and permanent civilization at the cost of destroying the environment. As everyone knows, the more crimes committed against nature, the deeper nature's hatred of mankind. One day, nature will return to mankind all what mankind has done to him. "The Day After Acquired" tells the terrible scenario of global warming backlash against humanity: due to the melting of icebergs in Greenland and the Arctic, a large amount of fresh water enters the North Atlantic, reducing its salinity, and ultimately leading to the complete termination of the warm salt circulation in the Gulf of Mexico and even the global ocean. As a result, the equator and low-latitude regions stopped sending heat to the polar regions and high-latitude regions. As a result, the temperature in these places dropped sharply and entered a new ice age.
Some people may sneer, thinking that this is just a science fiction invented by Hollywood commercial blockbusters. How can it be possible to condense tens of thousands of years of climate evolution in one day? Indeed, out of the need for drama, there are a lot of exaggerations and irrationality in this film, but overall, the plot in this film is scientifically reasonable, and geologists point out that the earth in history Indeed, there have been incidents where the temperature dropped sharply in a very short period of time. Among them, the most famous and the biggest impact on human beings was the New Dryas incident. The cause at that time was similar to that in the movie. At the end of the ice age, global temperatures rose and the Laurentide ice shelf on the North American continent began to melt. Around 10,000 BC, the melting of glaciers accelerated and a large amount of fresh water entered the North Atlantic. , Leading to the termination of the global ocean thermohaline circulation, the temperature in high latitudes has dropped sharply, and a large amount of ice and snow have accumulated. The white ice and snow have a higher reflectivity to the sun, resulting in a decrease in the solar radiation absorbed by the earth and a further drop in temperature. The snow-covered area further expanded, and so repeatedly, the earth became extremely cold in a short period of time. However, the temperature drop rate during the New Dryas incident was not as exaggerated as in "The Day After Tomorrow", but it was indeed extremely fast. The latest research on ice cores shows that the average temperature in the northern hemisphere may have dropped by about 20 degrees in 10 years! The temperature difference between Beijing and Guangzhou dropped by two in 10 years!
The scenes in the movie are shocking! Astronauts saw huge cyclones formed in the atmosphere in space; New Delhi in South Asia unexpectedly snowed; super tornadoes raged in Los Angeles, famous Hollywood signs were blown to pieces, and huge advertisements of journalists interviewing on the streets in spite of danger were blown off. The card was thrown away; an astonishing number of birds flew from the sky above New York to the south in horror; a huge wave rushed from Manhattan to New York, and the Statue of Liberty was instantly submerged; frightened pedestrians raced with the roaring flood; the giant oil tanker was also washed by the flood. Go to Manhattan Street; the British helicopter on the rescue mission crashed due to the rapid freezing of fuel. The crew members instantly froze into statues. It is important to know that the freezing point of aviation fuel is minus 60 degrees, and the temperature of rapid freezing is much lower; The torch's Statue of Liberty was frozen into a "popsicle". There is another scene that is thought-provoking: Tens of thousands of Americans broke through the barbed wire fence built by the United States to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico and broke into Mexico as "illegal American immigrants." In the past, the United States always accused the Mexican government of failing to supervise illegal immigrants who smuggled into the United States. This time the Americans themselves have become "illegal immigrants." I wonder what it feels like? Those Western countries always criticize developing countries for destroying the environment under the guise of protecting the environment. snort! Every year, more than 95% of the world's greenhouse gases are emitted by developed countries led by the United States and the United States. what! Does this count as a thief calling and catching a thief?
Combined with the reality of the filming and release of "The Day After Tomorrow", it criticized the policy orientation of the US government in the form of disaster prediction. At the end of the film, the succeeding president who suddenly wakes up (the former vice president in the film is quite strong and seems to be alluding to the then Vice President Cheney), openly confessed to the world, reflected on the past environmental policies, and thanked the development of the "Third World" The Chinese "accepted" American refugees. This is undoubtedly the most pungent mockery against the United States' refusal to sign the "Kyoto Protocol."
The film finally ended with a gratifying conclusion, some people still survived tenaciously in the face of natural disasters. The son finally waited for his father's rescue. This bright tail symbolizes human wisdom and confidence in the future. There are no single-handed salvation heroes in this non-traditional Hollywood disaster film, but a group of wise men and warriors. Whether it's Jack, a paleoclimatologist, or his son Sam, whether it is a British scholar Lyson or Jack's colleague, they are all good!
Science fiction and movies often have amazing foresight, and the reality of later generations is often the imagination of the past. We don't want the doomsday scene presented in "The Day After Tomorrow" to appear in reality, but! If people continue to persevere in their enlightenment, the "nurture" is really not far away...what can we do to save our nurture? What can we do to save our offspring? Do something now~ Otherwise, The day aftertomorrow, where will you be?
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