Unknown ocean depths, mysterious distances of space, amazing tropical forests, amazing mountains - an amazing, mysterious and mysterious world has surrounded us since time immemorial. Of course, man’s constant striving for progress has yielded results - water flows directly from the tap for us, and the electricity and the Internet have become so familiar that now it’s hard for us to imagine our existence without these benefits of civilization.
Huge plants, the number of which is growing every year, provide modern mankind with almost all the necessary resources. We mastered metal and learned how to use oil, invented paper and gunpowder, and huge information resources are now stored on tiny plastic carriers.
You have to pay for everything
It would seem that the life of modern mankind is almost perfect - everything is at hand, everything can be bought or produced, but not everything is so smooth. In the pursuit of progress, we lose sight of one extremely important detail - the limitations of natural resources. Every year, human activity causes the extinction of a huge number of species of living things, not to mention the destruction of forests and significant changes in the climate, leading to cataclysms of a global scale.
One of the most serious and requiring attention issues are environmental problems. Arguments in favor of preserving the environment are very diverse, ranging from calls for mercy and ending with scientific evidence of the existence of a planetary threat.
What is the movie about?
If you think about it, at the moment there is a truly staggering amount of films in which the problem of the need to protect the environment is revealed . An example is the famous catastrophe film "The Day After Tomorrow", which reveals the theme of global warming, or the sensational picture in its time with John Cusack in the title role with the minimalistic title "2012".
By and large, one of the most popular topics in modern (and not only) cinema is precisely environmental problems. Arguments in favor of restricting the use of natural resources are literally pouring onto the viewer directly from the screen, but so far this has not brought significant results.
Book pages
Such topics are found at least in literature. Not only art, but also scientific book production from various sides illuminates all kinds of arguments on the environmental problem. The book Silent spring, for example, discloses the dangers of using pesticides, and Robin Murray, in his goal, Zero Waste, draws the reader's attention to the need for high-quality waste disposal in order to preserve the environment.
In any classical or modern anti-utopia, the theme of the irrational use of natural resources and the harmful influence of man on the flora and fauna of the planet is somehow covered.
In the wake of Ray Bradbury
A classic example of fiction on the irrational use of resources and opportunities by man can be called the novel “And the Thunder struck” by Ray Bradbury. Not the last place in the work is also occupied by environmental problems. The author’s arguments are very impressive - the disappearance of a tiny butterfly can lead to truly irreversible consequences that have changed the entire course of evolution.
A friend of the earth
This novel describes the ecological situation in the not-so-distant 2026, when there were practically no trees or wild animals left. It would seem, what other arguments are required? Many writers turn to the problem of ecology in literature, and the author of the work under consideration does not skimp on large-scale comparisons of the past and the future and a description of what the Earth can lose if the planet’s population does not revise its views on the use of natural resources.
Orwell spoke about this
The endless buildings of various ministries, the mud, the devastation that the modern world is immersed in - this is the classic landscape from the novel "1984", in which the arguments for the environmental problem consist mostly of comparisons between the naturalness of nature and the coldness of stone erected by man.
"Cloud Atlas"
Both the film, shot jointly by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski tandem, and the book by David Mitchell try to draw the attention of the masses to the unreasonable behavior of man. Although indirectly, this work also highlights certain environmental problems. The author cites the arguments in such a way that the reader (and then the viewer) simply sometimes can not understand the past in front of him or the future.
Noisy megacities without a single trace of vegetation echo in this masterpiece with endless green forests and blue oceans, among which there is no longer room for man. Food is replaced with a special soap, and society is served by specially created “factories” that are disposed of and converted into an energy source after the expiration date.
Description of the beautiful
Today, one of the most pressing problems is considered to be the environmental problem. Arguments from the literature on this topic can be absolutely scientific and proven facts, but they can not be compared with descriptions of the purity and beauty of the flora and fauna that are abundant in world classics. How can you not think about preserving the environment while reading about the virgin jungle and ocean depths in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe? How can one remain indifferent to saving rare species while holding the autobiographical book of Joy Adamson “Born Free”?
What is the problem of ecology for modern mankind? Arguments from literature, cinema, and even computer games from the category of Last of us are no longer able to impress him. Sometimes it seems that the imaginary “stop” button, which is responsible for stopping the destruction of the environment, can be pressed only in the most extreme, extreme situation, when there can be no turning back.
A huge number of leading scientists around the world are constantly trumpeting the threat looming over humanity, giving more and more weighty arguments. It is impossible to turn a blind eye to the environmental problem. Equities are gaining momentum in favor of preserving the environment. Relevant petitions collect millions and even billions of signatures around the world, but this does not stop modern man. And who knows what this will subsequently lead to ...