Last March 8, 2007, the whole UP High School student Body and Faculty went to the Conference Hall to witness a film showing. It was entitled: An Inconvenient Truth. It is a film by Al Gore and it presents Global Warming and its effects to the counties in the world.
At first, I thought that like the other film showings we had, it would be boring. But then, when the film was already rolling, I was touched and was moved by the happenings in other countries and also to the other parts of the planet. As a person, I realized how man destroyed nature especially our world.
If we can remember, during our elementary years, we were already taught about global warming and environmental issues. Of course we always say that we'll help the country and we'll help the world. But the truth is, we are just helping our world to be destroyed immediately. I our world will be destroyed, where are we going to live? Isn't earth supposed to be the only planet in the solar system habitable for life?
In the film, I really understood the meaning of Global Warming. In a classroom setting, global warming will be discussed according to the writings in a book and it usually means- the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation(wikipedia.com). If this issue is discussed in a classroom, you would not understand it fully. But in the film, it was clearly shown there the effects of global warming in the countries in Europe and Asia especially in the polar regions.
Nowadays, Philippines is now experiencing storms and calamities that are really affecting the lives of many Filipinos. It has already affected the livelihood and the lives of many people in many ways. These happenings are just a result of a phenomenon known as global warming. It affects the climate that is why Philippines is one of the country experiencing a climatic change. Sad to say, Philippines is not the only country experiencing this problem. Many countries are also affected by this phenomenon. Africa for example is a country located near the equator. As we all know, Africa experiences rain only after many years and they usually expect it months after the drought. But now, some parts in Africa and equatorial countries do not receive rain. This event is really disastrous because it kills their crops and livelihood, kills their animals and most especially causes starvation to the youth there. It is such a painful truth in which we have to accept and unfortunately we have to blame ourselves as one of the reasons why Africa and other countries experience this kind of misfortunes.
The film also presented a lot of facts about the current situation of the polar ice caps. The ice caps in the North and South poles are now slowly melting away because of the constant increase in temperature caused by the global warming in the atmosphere. Global Warming not only causes the melting of the polar ice caps but is also the cause of different calamities which countries across the globe are now experiencing. Lots of misfortunes now happen not only in our country but also to the rest of the world and this is obviously because of our negligence and lack of concern for the environment.
Many statistics were also shown in the film and it was also shown there how temperature increased from the time of the ice age up to the present. Research and studies show that within the next 5 years or so, temperature in the earth's surface will continue to rise if we do not change our ways and just try to let nature heal its self.
Because of the film, it made me realize how bad I am because I am also one of the 8 billion plus people in the world who helps in degrading the world and its atmosphere. It made me also realize that nature has provided us everything we need- food, shelter etc. but in order for us to continue living and enjoy this wonderful gifts we also have to conserve and protect them from being damaged and destroyed. We have to help conserve our environment because in return we also use the things which we acquire from nature. For us to help nature, let us also help discipline ourselves because I know that if we start within ourselves, we can eventually make a chain that can make other people follow. We might say that we can't make a difference because we might be nobody in the community but we must always pay it forward. As many people say, Great things start from small beginnings. So we must always say that there is no impossible thing to be done if we just start within ourselves. I know someday this vision of ours, to save the world will eventually succeed if all of us will cooperate and try to achieve a common goal.
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