Earth 2100 relies on fictitious – worst case scenarios to show how the earth might be damaged beyond repair by our actions or failure to take them and hence result in our annihilation. It takes the help of 2-D animation in combination of real world interviews and footage to put across a story that can surely demand anyone’s attention. After all, it banks on the topic that has been a buzz for the past few years – Global Warming.
The first question, older generations of Earth would be asking is as to why they should believe in such a documentary because over the years, whenever they have been shown a picture of future Earth, the reality has always been very different. For example, the generations of 1930s to 1950s were told that in the 21st century, they’d be seeing flying cars. Not a reality as of yet, and we are in the second decade of the century. The picture of future Earth this feature paints has high chances of materializing should we ignore the signs and fail to take actions. We simply cannot fiddle while Rome burns.
The feature portrays that we are so dependent on oil for all our needs that oil is used in the country right from agriculture to delivering it to our doorstep to putting things in space. While we are that dependent, we take it for granted and think that there is plenty of oil to last forever. Hence, should an energy crisis strike, we will find ourselves in quite a pickle.
At the rate we are putting greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the picture looks horrid and the graphs look angry. The more of these gasses we put into the atmosphere, the faster the planet is heating up and if the heating process passes a particular threshold, known as the point of no return in the feature, all hell will break loose, in this scenario, almost literally. There will be more natural disasters, rises in global sea levels due to the melting polar ice where the melting in turn will result in more greenhouse gasses and hence will accelerate the heating process. All these major changes will happen and we will hardly know or notice. We will be like the frog in heating pan.
The feature dreams that in the conferences like the Copenhagen Climate Conference, the nations reach a unanimous decision and design a framework that will save our planet. It looks at us, the citizens of this Earth to convince our governments to lay down the groundwork as fast as possible since we are running out of time.
Although fictitious, the documentary is instrumental in presenting the future scenarios should we keep ignoring the present state of our planet and the path we are putting it on. It emphasizes that the time for action is now and it’s better late than be never.
Earth 2100 relies on fictitious – worst case scenarios to show how the earth might be damaged beyond repair by our actions or failure to take them and hence result in our annihilation. It takes the help of 2-D animation in combination of real world interviews and footage to put across a story that can surely demand anyone’s attention. After all, it banks on the topic that has been a buzz for the past few years – Global Warming.
The first question, older generations of Earth would be asking is as to why they should believe in such a documentary because over the years, whenever they have been shown a picture of future Earth, the reality has always been very different. For example, the generations of 1930s to 1950s were told that in the 21st century, they’d be seeing flying cars. Not a reality as of yet, and we are in the second decade of the century. The picture of future Earth this feature paints has high chances of materializing should we ignore the signs and fail to take actions. We simply cannot fiddle while Rome burns.
The feature portrays that we are so dependent on oil for all our needs that oil is used in the country right from agriculture to delivering it to our doorstep to putting things in space. While we are that dependent, we take it for granted and think that there is plenty of oil to last forever. Hence, should an energy crisis strike, we will find ourselves in quite a pickle.
At the rate we are putting greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the picture looks horrid and the graphs look angry. The more of these gasses we put into the atmosphere, the faster the planet is heating up and if the heating process passes a particular threshold, known as the point of no return in the feature, all hell will break loose, in this scenario, almost literally. There will be more natural disasters, rises in global sea levels due to the melting polar ice where the melting in turn will result in more greenhouse gasses and hence will accelerate the heating process. All these major changes will happen and we will hardly know or notice. We will be like the frog in heating pan.
The feature dreams that in the conferences like the Copenhagen Climate Conference, the nations reach a unanimous decision and design a framework that will save our planet. It looks at us, the citizens of this Earth to convince our governments to lay down the groundwork as fast as possible since we are running out of time.
Although fictitious, the documentary is instrumental in presenting the future scenarios should we keep ignoring the present state of our planet and the path we are putting it on. It emphasizes that the time for action is now and it’s better late than be never.