This is the most remarkable documentary I have ever seen.
It doesn't get more profound than this.
We are living literally on the tipping point of the world as we know it.
The visual evidence in this film is surmounting.
These men, these people with this dream, risked everything and risked their lives to capture this footage over years.
When, will documentaries start playing in movie theatres? Sometimes I am completely bewildered by our human family. I can't help but not understand why we prefer this mundane entertainment over real lives, real people, real stories and learning about our beautiful magnificent world that we live in.
Watching this documentary. Suddenly nothing in the world can hold a frame on what this means to us, or life as we know it.
Scientists say that at best 2/3rd's of biological life will still remain in the next 1 to 200 years. In my harsh opinion, I think this is way overestimating. These pictures of ice bergs melting... miles upon miles of 100,000 year old ice, gone in minutes.
There is a lot of talk around endangered animals. But hardly anyone mentions about endangered plants. Plants are our life source, our sustenance. We are literally nothing without these lifeforms on planet earth. When temperature rises enough, it's possible that tropics could become completely uninhabitable. Plants are very sensitive, they have evolved for millions of years to live within very specific temperatures. When temperatures vary too much from the norm, even if it's a day out of the year. That can very well be the end of that plant life. Not just the tropics may face issues... the whole planet.
I think it's worth really learning more about, talking to plant experts, talking to glaciologists... How much time are they giving us. And how much time do we have to adjust what we are about to witness. When the ice caps melt.. there goes global sea level. Which is going to greatly impact many of our regions. Misplacing millions of people. What can we do today to prepare for this?
I don't have any idea how much time we have... all I know right now, is that if I can't be part of the solution in some capacity or another. There is no meaning to my life.
I am guilty of so many things that it's easy for an environmentalist to point a guilty finger at others for. But everyday in everyway, I want to reduce my negative impact on my surroundings.
And increase the positive ones.
What would it mean, if every single person were to be this passionate about global warming to the extent that they'd risk their life in the name of it's cause.
If that is not integrity at it's best... then I am unfamiliar with that word.
Maybe I'm not in a position to actively risk my life-- hiking dangerous peaks and capturing shocking footage.
And maybe I'm not even in a situation where I can do anything particularly impressive.
But what can I do?
And how can I keep checking to make sure that I haven't become slothful in the process and I am still working on doing and being the best person that I feel I can be, in the name of these causes.
It's not about every person doing their bit anymore. We've tried that, and it doesn't work.
It's about every person taking 100% responsibility for every flaw in this world.
It starts with our own lives.
our share or our bit, gets left behind and ignored. We need to ignite the passion and go all out.
Of course, there isn't a huge percentage of people who are willing to go all out... but let me tell you how this works.
It starts somewhere. With one person, doing something radical. Over time, that new behavior becomes slightly more normal and expected... perhaps at first only by close friends and family, and in fact, it rubs off on a few people... A few people turn into more people.. and suddenly it's a domino effect, that everyone starts doing it!
Any ONE can be that person. People think that when you are crazy and outside the box that no one will have listen to you or LIKE you.
In fact its the opposite. People are strangely attracted to that which they find bold, interesting and daring. At first they will blatantly attack, although behind the scenes they may admire.. and this may subtly change with time.. and suddenly these people find themselves doing the exact same thing years later.. because that's how our world works.
You judge something.. and you have a tendency to attract it into your life.
We need the bold people of this world. To step up to the plate, and make the change they wish to see in the world. What if you knew, that all it took in this life to live in the kind of world that you would like to see... is the meer act of you being 100% truthful and beneficial to all of your surroundings 100% of the time.
Are you saying that this isn't possible?
What if all it took, was for you to step up to the plate and own responsibility for climate change. And if you could take whatever talents you were given in this lifetime, and push them to where you could make an impact in the lives of others through your beautiful talents, and you could inspire change through your choices and your life.
Perhaps that is the meaning of this place called earth.
For people to learn how to open their hearts, listen to their passions and use their talents to invoke the beauty around them.
It doesn't get more profound than this.
We are living literally on the tipping point of the world as we know it.
The visual evidence in this film is surmounting.
These men, these people with this dream, risked everything and risked their lives to capture this footage over years.
When, will documentaries start playing in movie theatres? Sometimes I am completely bewildered by our human family. I can't help but not understand why we prefer this mundane entertainment over real lives, real people, real stories and learning about our beautiful magnificent world that we live in.
Watching this documentary. Suddenly nothing in the world can hold a frame on what this means to us, or life as we know it.
Scientists say that at best 2/3rd's of biological life will still remain in the next 1 to 200 years. In my harsh opinion, I think this is way overestimating. These pictures of ice bergs melting... miles upon miles of 100,000 year old ice, gone in minutes.
There is a lot of talk around endangered animals. But hardly anyone mentions about endangered plants. Plants are our life source, our sustenance. We are literally nothing without these lifeforms on planet earth. When temperature rises enough, it's possible that tropics could become completely uninhabitable. Plants are very sensitive, they have evolved for millions of years to live within very specific temperatures. When temperatures vary too much from the norm, even if it's a day out of the year. That can very well be the end of that plant life. Not just the tropics may face issues... the whole planet.
I think it's worth really learning more about, talking to plant experts, talking to glaciologists... How much time are they giving us. And how much time do we have to adjust what we are about to witness. When the ice caps melt.. there goes global sea level. Which is going to greatly impact many of our regions. Misplacing millions of people. What can we do today to prepare for this?
I don't have any idea how much time we have... all I know right now, is that if I can't be part of the solution in some capacity or another. There is no meaning to my life.
I am guilty of so many things that it's easy for an environmentalist to point a guilty finger at others for. But everyday in everyway, I want to reduce my negative impact on my surroundings.
And increase the positive ones.
What would it mean, if every single person were to be this passionate about global warming to the extent that they'd risk their life in the name of it's cause.
If that is not integrity at it's best... then I am unfamiliar with that word.
Maybe I'm not in a position to actively risk my life-- hiking dangerous peaks and capturing shocking footage.
And maybe I'm not even in a situation where I can do anything particularly impressive.
But what can I do?
And how can I keep checking to make sure that I haven't become slothful in the process and I am still working on doing and being the best person that I feel I can be, in the name of these causes.
It's not about every person doing their bit anymore. We've tried that, and it doesn't work.
It's about every person taking 100% responsibility for every flaw in this world.
It starts with our own lives.
our share or our bit, gets left behind and ignored. We need to ignite the passion and go all out.
Of course, there isn't a huge percentage of people who are willing to go all out... but let me tell you how this works.
It starts somewhere. With one person, doing something radical. Over time, that new behavior becomes slightly more normal and expected... perhaps at first only by close friends and family, and in fact, it rubs off on a few people... A few people turn into more people.. and suddenly it's a domino effect, that everyone starts doing it!
Any ONE can be that person. People think that when you are crazy and outside the box that no one will have listen to you or LIKE you.
In fact its the opposite. People are strangely attracted to that which they find bold, interesting and daring. At first they will blatantly attack, although behind the scenes they may admire.. and this may subtly change with time.. and suddenly these people find themselves doing the exact same thing years later.. because that's how our world works.
You judge something.. and you have a tendency to attract it into your life.
We need the bold people of this world. To step up to the plate, and make the change they wish to see in the world. What if you knew, that all it took in this life to live in the kind of world that you would like to see... is the meer act of you being 100% truthful and beneficial to all of your surroundings 100% of the time.
Are you saying that this isn't possible?
What if all it took, was for you to step up to the plate and own responsibility for climate change. And if you could take whatever talents you were given in this lifetime, and push them to where you could make an impact in the lives of others through your beautiful talents, and you could inspire change through your choices and your life.
Perhaps that is the meaning of this place called earth.
For people to learn how to open their hearts, listen to their passions and use their talents to invoke the beauty around them.
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