Mission Blue

Mission Blue revolves around Sylvia Earle and her personal experiences as well as professional. Here is a link to her national geographic page for those who are interested in some background information about Sylvia Earle. Link

Ever since Sylvia was a little girl she was obsessed with nature. She was always in the water or exploring the woods. Wanting to discover anything and everything she can. This is why she takes the impact on the ocean to heart. It kills her that no one is doing anything about our negative impact on the oceans. Shes not afraid to call people out and tell them that they're wrong. Her advancements in the scientific community lead the charge for many women scientists. There's a specific coral reef in the Caribbean that Sylvia visited in the 70's that is no longer there. It's completely gone and its due to our high population and our never ending hunger for fossil fuels. We also have nearly fished some species extinct. Fisherman are catching blue fin tuna before they're even of age to reproduce. We continue to fish them younger and younger. There remains around 5% of the blue fin population. We must slow our use of fossil fuels. We must find better alternatives to our fishing methods. The ocean is a beautiful natural system. A system that impacts our lives much more than we can even imagine.

The film doesn't really go into detail about how we can minimize our impact, but it excels at grabbing the attention of the watcher and making them realize that we are destroying the oceans. Sylvia really stresses how much they have changed just in her life time and how concerned she is for the oceans during the lifetimes of her children. It truly opened my eyes. From this class I had a little prior knowledge of our impact on the oceans, but I didn't realize it was as severe as it is. Overall the film was well made. I didn't find it dry much like other documentaries. It kept my attention and informed me on our negative impact on the oceans.

Changing the Worlds Ideals (Bibliography source)

I plan to utilize personal interviews of a few highly qualified individuals to get their own professional and personal take on our current climactic situation. I intend to use parts of this article in order to try and understand Trump's side of the argument.
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Trump states that wind farms are not a wise energy generator. Says the highest day ever was in the 19th century. That's just the beginning of Trump's views on our climactic crisis. I find it mind blowing that our current president refuses to recognize global warming as a serious issue. With all of the scientific research, how can he refuse to recognize it? I want to use this article as a baseline in my video project. Utilize some of Trump's quotes in interviews asking individuals what their takes are on the situation. Essentially this article is going to allow me to generate better questions, making the video more personal and hopefully allowing the video to hit home to a larger number of people.

One Degree

Much like we all know our world is constantly warming. One degree discusses many of the changes and their impact on our environment.

It has been projected that due to the increased temperature that there will be another Dust Bowl, but this time much more severe. A specific example mentioned is that the high peaks covered with snow and ice are melting. With the melting it is disrupting water supplies, wildlife and the diversity in the ecosystem. With the rise in temperature ice sheets are melting. Ice reflects 80% of the sun's heat, while the oceans absorb 90% of the sun's heat. Causing a rise in temperature in the waters. This rise in temperature allows for hurricanes to be more prominent.

With "Six Degrees" being written in 2007 the information is outdated. We are experiencing much of what has been mentioned to an even greater extent in some instances.