No. 8, and I accidentally watched a documentary about the earth "Homeland" in Xunlei, also known as "The beauty of the earth depends on you". The main idea of the film is self-evident to protect the earth, protect our homeland, and live in harmony with nature. The picture and music of the film are very good. A lot of the pictures are aerial photography, grand, open and beautiful. The soundtrack is mainly a beautiful female voice, and the clear, distant and melancholy atmosphere conveys a feeling of compassion.
"Homeland" was supervised by the famous Luc Besson. On June 5, 2009, the World Environmental Protection Day, it was released simultaneously in cinemas, TV stations, and the Internet in a free and copyright-free manner. I was so conscious! According to reports, the "Homeland" filming team visited 50 countries and filmed, from the Great Barrier Reef under the sea in Australia to Mount Kilimanjaro in the Kenyan Plateau of Africa, from the Amazon rainforest to the Gobi Desert, from the Desa in the United States From the continuous cotton fields of Sizhou to the industrial towns of Shanghai, China…
"Homeland" tells us that since the 200,000-year existence of human beings on the earth, the balance established by this planet after nearly 4 billion years of evolution has been destroyed. Be in order again. Today, 20% of the world's population consumes 80% of the earth's resources, and the world's funds spent on armament are 12% of the funds to aid developing countries. Every day, 5,000 people die due to drinking contaminated water, and 1 billion people do not have safe drinking water. 1 billion people are on the brink of starvation, half of the world's grain is used to feed livestock or as fuel, 40% of the world's arable land has declined in quality, 13 million hectares of forest are lost every year, and every 4 mammals, 8 birds, 2 amphibians There is 1 endangered species, and the mortality rate of biological species is 1,000 times faster than normal. Before 2025, water scarcity will affect 2 billion people. At current fishing rates, the oceans will be empty by 2050. By 2050, there will be 250 million climate refugees worldwide...
Do these data surprise you? Besides shock, what else? Sadness, shame, anger, or thinking? As "Homeland" said at the beginning: "Please listen to me, you are a smart human being like me... Please listen carefully to this special story, your own story, and then decide what you should do." After watching the film, I had this idea without thinking: People must live in harmony with people and nature, otherwise it will be finished, and mankind and nature will be finished together!
In fact, building a harmonious society is not only an idea that exists today, but it has attracted more attention today, and I think it has not yet reached the level of attention. Building a harmonious society is not only the ideal of contemporary politicians, but also the consensus of thinkers, philosophers, and all people with conscience throughout the ages. How to build a harmonious society, many scholars are now talking and writing: to achieve harmony between social classes, we must use social organizations to achieve a harmonious society, we must start from adjusting the social structure to build a harmonious society, and we must rationally distribute the benefits brought about by economic growth. Wealth, we must reasonably share the cost of reform and development, we must safeguard the basic rights and interests of "outside the system" social groups, we must adjust class relations, narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, and properly handle the relationship between economic development and social development... There are many ideas and opinions. , There are many methods. I'm not a scholar, I don't care what they say, I'm just an ordinary person, I just want, what is the earth thinking? "Homeland" said: "Everyone, rich or poor, can contribute." I can't say how much I can contribute, but I will definitely take action.
In today's rapidly developing and highly developed society, so many people are sparing no effort to destroy nature for the sake of self-development and personal taste. According to a 20-year study conducted by the World Conservation Union, "At least one in every eight plant species in the world—almost one in every three plant species in the United States—is threatened with extinction." Whether or not the data is the most accurate, the reasons for this horrific rate of destruction are: the deforestation for agricultural purposes, the draining and filling of wetlands, the damming of rivers, the use and abuse of coral reefs, and the uncontrolled High-tech marine fishing operations. I think of the literature, philosophy, religion, science, and some miscellaneous books I have read. The authors are different in ancient and modern times, Chinese and foreign, and the categories are different, but from those excellent and classic books, we can always see the implicit truth: people must be with others. , in harmony with nature. This is not only a requirement for environmental protection, but also a requirement for the continued development of human beings. Fromm said in Saying Love: "The vast majority of people living in this economic system already have far more than they can use, but they still feel poor because they can't keep up with production or produce it. the pace of the multitude of commodities. Such a situation stimulates negativity such as envy, greed, and ultimately a feeling of inner weakness, powerlessness, and inferiority." "If his life consisted only of possession and use rather than existence , then he is degraded, becomes a thing, and his life has no meaning." He warns us that any possession beyond what is necessary is useless. Fox's "Deep Vegetarianism" also discusses the disharmony between man and nature in terms of animal protection, environmental ecology, world famine, and medical care. Humans tend to use natural and biological systems as tools to achieve very narrow goals, he said. He urged everyone to reflect and choose a way of life that is not based on subduing nature and torturing inhuman animals - vegetarianism. Master Shengyan said in "The True Buddhism" that Buddhism encourages vegetarianism because of compassion for all sentient beings.
A few years ago, two books called "Green Bibles" - "Silent Spring" and "Sand Country Yearbook", made me feel the shock of deafening. Has anyone noticed that since a certain time in the spring the murmur of swallows and the chirping of warblers are no longer heard, and the fields become silent. American female writer Rachel Carson, when she was in her 50s, dragged her body with cancer, started to investigate, collected data, and began to think. It took four years to write a book full of warnings, defending nature, and rebuking "Silent Spring", which is a cautionary tale about chemicals that have changed "insecticides" into "biocides", has brought great harm to human beings. It lit a beacon for the enlightenment of human environmental awareness. Rachel Carson used a lot of solid data to fully demonstrate the harm of pesticides to water, soil, plants, animals and humans. In 1988, the EPA reported that surface waters in 32 states had been contaminated with 74 different agricultural chemicals, including the herbicide atrazine, which is considered a potential human carcinogen. Farmlands in the Mississippi Valley are sprayed with 70 million tons of pesticides each year, and 1.5 million pounds flow into the water that serves 20 million people. When Silent Spring came out in 1962, it was a controversial book, and its shocking predictions about the harm of pesticides to the human environment were slammed not only by the productive and economic sectors at stake, but also by Strongly shocked the general public. In 1963, then-incumbent US President Kennedy appointed a special committee to investigate the conclusion. The committee confirmed Carson's warnings about the potential harm of pesticides were correct. Congress immediately held a hearing, and the first non-governmental environmental organization in the United States emerged as the times require, and the US Environmental Protection Agency was also established on this background. The Nobel Prize-winning DDT and several other highly toxic pesticides have finally been eliminated from production and use. While Silent Spring is recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century as a milestone in the environmental movement, Carson was selected by Life magazine in 1990 as one of the 100 most important American books of the twentieth century. One of them, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, wrote a 7,000-word foreword to the reprint of Silent Spring.
Sand Country Almanac is the representative work of Aldo Leopold, known as the "Father of American Wildlife Management". It is a collection of nature essays and philosophical essays published in 1949. This book looks simple on the surface. It begins as a series of 12-month retellings of different scenes from a year on an abandoned Sand Country farm where Leopold and his family were on a hands-on quest to restore ecological integrity. Next, some of Leopold's experiences elsewhere in the United States are presented further on issues of conservationism; the book ends with several essays on human-environment relations, aesthetics, and ethical reflections. In the "Sand Country Yearbook", the most fresh and exciting is Leopold's writings on "The Ethics of Land", which draws the relationship between man and nature from an ethical point of view, the land is emotional, the land is Moral, the land reciprocates, "A thing is right only if it helps to maintain the harmony, stability and beauty of the biological community; otherwise, it is wrong." on this planet In an era of worldwide deterioration in the environmental systems on which life depends, Leopold tried to show that ordinary people could play a pivotal role. He tried to strengthen people's understanding of the land on the basis of explaining the ecological function of the land, so as to inspire people's love and respect for the land community. He believes that through understanding and love, there will be a sense of moral responsibility in behavior, so as to maintain the healthy functioning of the community.
Now, with the increasingly prominent contradictions between man and nature, man and society, and man and man in global development, humanistic thought has been gradually accepted and valued by modern society, and has developed into a core concept in social development theory. The core of the people-oriented spirit is "people-oriented", that is, people-centered, everything is for people, and everything depends on people. However, people must not be arrogant, must not act indiscriminately, and must not think that they are the masters of the world. We must understand the complete truth about how we used to steal the earth's rich resources, we must change human consumption patterns, we must stop digging for resources that are not necessary for life, and we must stop coveting further unspoiled areas. It's too late to be pessimistic. What the future will be depends on the conscience of mankind.
Please listen carefully, who is saying: the beauty of the earth depends on you!
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