The 11th hr

The 11th hr is a documentary that highlights the importance of the earth and humankind. It was quite engaging  as it starts of with how closely linked we are to the earth and how it helps us grow. Its quite tragic how the Earth who once helped us live is now becoming forgotten in the race to grow in consumerism.

It was interesting to find out how the there is a direct link between the sunlight and the population of the world. Though I didn’t make the link before, it makes perfect sense that the energy from the sunlight directly supports the population of the world. It took 100 thousand yrs to reach a billion people on the sunlight directly, since then pockets of ancient sunlight aka oil has perpetually increased the population to 2 billion in only 130 yrs, 3 billion in 30 years and 6 billion in 40 years.

The metaphor for oil being ‘burrowed energy’ clarified the importance about the externalities for oil; Asthma growing in children, acid rain from burning coal, global warming from burning fossil fuels, all these are subsidies for the use of oil.  30% of children in class have asthma in recent times than 10 years ago, increases in adhd, Alzheimer’s, birth defects. Even though these facts may be true that there are coherent symptoms of using oil, the statistics of comparing to 10 years ago is quite irrelevant because as the video said, the exponential increase in population means that there was about 1.5 billion people less 10 years ago, which means a significant increase in children being affected as the number of children have increased dramatically.
Its dissapointing how deforesting the earth can lead to dramatic results which including flooding, degrading soil, desertification. It was amazing to discover how a fully grown tree can hold up 57 thousand gallons of water and re direct it into the aqua ducts, and without this trees lead to flash floods and soil erosion. Ultimately these floods lead to water pollution.

 Its tragic to hear how politics is dead when it comes to the protection of the Earth, the world being controlled by corporate identities, who pollute the waters with 5 million gallons of toxin into the water per year.
Overall the video was very insightful to global topics and was an eye opener to what’s going on in the world