Earth [2007] Documentary Film

A couple of days ago, I watched the nature documentary film called Earth produced by BBC. It is the most breathtaking, but upsetting documentary film I have ever seen. It shows us the shocking, upsetting truth about the implications of climate change and what many beautiful, helpless creatures out there across the planet are suffering from the effects of global warming.The film follows 3 families in the Arctic and Antarctica within one year; Polar bears, Humpback whales and African elephants. The film shows us their desperate, long journeys that they are forced to take in order to survive in the changing, warmer Earth that is present today. 

What journeys they have to take? Here are the upsetting facts that global warming has on these beautiful species - with quotes at the end of the film:

• In the Arctic, the increasing temperature has melted more and more ice each year. By August, all the sea ice melted. This resulted in polar bears forced to swim for days to find solid sea ice. Many polar bears died of exhaustion and starvation every year from their struggle to survive after swimming for days around the ocean filled with broken/melted ice. 

"The polar bear has become an emblem for our planet & all other creatures that struggle to live alongside us. Of the global climate continues to warm out at its present rate, polar bears may be extinct in the wild by 2030"

• Elephants and many other creatures in African deserts are forced to make very long journeys for days in search for fresh water as the rising temperature has dried out more places in Africa. These journeys are life-threatening with risks such as exhaustion, dehydration, starvation, sand storms, and predators that younger creatures such as baby elephants are more in risk of.

"With global warming disrupting our planet's weather systems supplies of freshwater are becoming increasingly unpredictable"

• Humpback whales are forced to make a 6,400 km journey (half of the world journey from the equator line to the south pole - the longest migration of any marine mammal) south to the rich feeding grounds near Antarctica due to the rising ocean temperature provides less and less food for whales. 

"Rising ocean temperature have started to kill plankton on which humpback whales & most other sea life depend"

I very much recommend for you to see this second highest grossing nature documentaries of all time [behind March of the Penguins which I also plan to see]. I hope it leaves a deep mark on your life as it did to mine. 

"Finally we begun to understand how precarious is the state of our once lucky planet. If we are to go on sharing Earth with such a rich variety of life & presence its fragile balance for our own children, now more than ever.....          it is on our hands."

The film inspires me to take further action now as the present generation to live sustainably, start taking care of our planet and stop putting this apparent issue to the back of our minds - as what we are doing now are killing many helpless creatures out there to the point of extinction.Sustainable cities with sustainable lifestyles, living in harmony with nature are what planners worldwide should focus on.

"But it is not too late to make a difference."

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