The Eleventh Hour, "The Hope is You"

             
              In this blog I will discuss the film ' the eleventh hour' produced and narrated by Leanardo Dicaprio, with contributions from well known scientists, physicist, environmentalists and politicians. In this film they together talk about problems faced by natural environment and the causes that led to such massive and traumatic change on planet earth.
              Global warming, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, change in climate, depletion of oceans all is mentioned and highlighted in this film. Before watching this film I just had a vague idea that global warming is dangerous and never took it as an alarming situation. I realized that I was aware of the changes taking place around me such as, change in climate; less snow, rise in temperature, increasing numbers of natural calamities, and loss of biodiversity (increasing no. of endangered species). But I never thought of the reasons why all this is happening. This was not the scenario in early times. As Dicaprio states in his film, right now "we face a convergence of crises"; we need to take precautionary steps to save our planet before it’s too late.
            Pollution is the biggest enemy of planet earth, greenhouse gases: it contains large amount of carbon dioxide and other poisonous gases. Which causes global warming: ozone depletion, ocean depletion, health problems, human rise ecology, global climate change etc. the damage created on earth by humans is immeasurable. the largest amount of greenhouse gases is produced by industries by burning of fossil fuels, cafo's and slaughterhouses are the biggest contributors in producing greenhouse gases emission, they generate millions of tons of manure every year and "produce ammonia (NH3) forms from the breakdown of manure and urine as well as wasted animal feed"(citation needed). Which then mixes with other poisonous greenhouse gases and is causing global warming. 'Global warming' is a strong word and no one can ignore it; this is problem which needs to be cured soon. Pollution created by these animal industries in large amount is taking away the natural from the nature which will soon result in end of the planet earth if everything continuous on the same pace.  Such practices like animal industries should be substituted with some other system like; animal husbandry, which is safer and healthier. All we need is to redesign our thinking in a way, where everybody takes planet earth as their responsibility and work together to keep it safe.
            As said in the film "people need to realize that there are things they can do in everyday life, everybody making a change adds up to something meaningful"; everyone can do a little something for the betterment of our nature and help our planet to recover from such such depletion. For instance everyone can follow the thumb rule of 'R.R.R', which is recycle, reuse and reduce the use of resources. Because resources are limited and want are unlimited and never ending, one should be careful and responsible in using the resources and should help in promoting sustainable development so our future generation can enjoy life on earth to the fullest without any scarcity of resources. But this is only possible if everybody realizes their potential and start acting in a right direction for a better and safe future.
             In this film the problems created by human being for planet earth is discussed from several viewpoints of experts. This film tries to aware general public about the current condition of earth and provides evidence and reasoning for such massive destruction. The film tells us that we are the last hope to save and protect our planet.