as human wants are limitless, our development and pursue of higher living is at the expense of the earth's resources. through years of exploiting, extracting and continuous consumption of of natural oils, fuels and space, our environment and habitat has been suffering in great deal and one could only wonder how long all these luxury would last.
throughout the whole video what i felt for most is probably the impacts of deforestation and oil exploration. i always felt that one of the most beautiful and amazing thing of our mother nature is her creation of wildlife. walking on this earth with us is a vast variety of other living creature, plants, and insect. be it on land or in the ocean humans are definitely not the only one depending on mother nature for survival. truth is we actually don't need much just to survive on earth. our ancestors had very little to live with as compared to us now. but improvements, education, human evolution and development meant a life not just to survive, but rather to survive comfortably and luxuriously.
just by reflecting on ourselves individually would help us understand how greedy human beings are. we can definitely live in caves, depend on traditional ways of living like hunting chickens for meat and growing our own vegetable for self consumption, ride horses to move around for transportation. but of course who on earth would do that now. if i want meat, i might prefer organic grown chicken from Australia thats probably $50 per kilogram. if i want to go somewhere it has to be some top class airlines offering best services and top class comfort. our ways of living has became so high standards that whatever traditional means of the past became recreational for us now. for our own wants, we take down other species at the earth's expenses.
it is said that in bout 30 year's time the crude oil industry will flop as the resources are being consumed at a freaking high rate. having friends in the crude oil industry, my thought is that it probably wont be that soon and that research and technology has already been starting to look at other ways of getting energy. although it is nice and somewhat cold for some of us to think that scientists are just exaggerating, i personally do feel the need to conserve energy and perhaps time for us to slow down our development. anyway whats the point of moving so fast when not all countries is at the same rate of development?
anyway. conservation starts individually. perhaps its time to change the lightbulbs to those energy saving ones for a start even though i dread that they take quite a while to light up.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Review on Tsunami: The aftermath
Tsunami: The aftermath is basically a fictional film by BBC depicting how people cope and survive after the Tsunami. The film basically showed how families and individuals were affected after the disaster, such as a young couple coping with their lost of their daughter, an English family trying to hold on together with the lost of the father and a very badly injured elder son and many more.
After the tsunami has not only cause great damage to the environment and the economic of the affected area, but as we can see through the movie, families and relationships were destroyed. We are not just talking about families losing family members but also families unable to move on with the lost. Here I'm talking about the couple who lost their daughter as the father was not able to save their daughter. The mother was out sailing when the tsunami came and instead of relishing the fact that she managed to reunite with her husband, she blames her husband for letting their daughter go. Eventually the couple broke up which I personally find it a shame. Not many families were able to even contact their family members and yet this couple failed to see what they have gotten out of such difficult situation. I personally blame the mother more. Even though it is understandable that she's terribly devastated with the loss of her daughter, she shouldn't try to look for replacements by adopting another look-alike of her daughter and disown her husband. She failed to see that by doing so, she chose to lose her whole family than trying to rebuild one with her husband who still loves her very much.
Other than showing various stories of how people coping with their losts, the film also touched on the political aspect of the incident, such as the local government not doing exactly much for those who were affected by the tsunami but rather focused more on the economic aspects of the area. In the film where the bellboy went back to his village he saw his home is still in a rut and instead of having officials coming over the help recovering people and the area, bulldozers and and constructions were set up instead. His home was being seized over to build on for commercial use and it can be very hard to deal with for a person who just survived a disaster. it's times like this that the government should make use of to gain the support of the people by providing help and fundings into rebuilding their lives and show concern. If they do not make use of the opportunity, chances are the people would not be willing to show support and might even move to other countries and migrate.
on the other hand, the english family faced problems such as the mother having a difficult time trying to pull her family back together after her husband has died. i feel that her part of the story is probably much easier to relate to somehow though i'm not sure why. it is very true that foreigners often have problems seeking help from their own countries. Embassies are not exactly the best authority to seek help from in times like this due to slow efficiency and logistics. should i be in her position i'll probably be exasperated like hell and yet at the same time i have to remain calm and sane for my children, and also on the other hand cope with me becoming a widow. thank god chances of me being in this position is kindda low but i must say i thought the make up and fake blood on the husband look really fake and gross.
Over all, although i do find the movie being somewhat a little inaccurate or even exaggerating at some point, or even corny, it does give people a good idea of the aftermath of a natural disaster. this is something which i believe singaporeans will have a hard time understanding since the most we can experience here are little trembles from neighboring countries' earthquakes etc. but would i consider this film to be the best material for understanding and learn how to cope with the aftermath of a natural disaster? probably not. I believe the real deal is way more serious and after all, acting out and trying to deal with serious loss of family members and home is definitely a hell of a difference.
After the tsunami has not only cause great damage to the environment and the economic of the affected area, but as we can see through the movie, families and relationships were destroyed. We are not just talking about families losing family members but also families unable to move on with the lost. Here I'm talking about the couple who lost their daughter as the father was not able to save their daughter. The mother was out sailing when the tsunami came and instead of relishing the fact that she managed to reunite with her husband, she blames her husband for letting their daughter go. Eventually the couple broke up which I personally find it a shame. Not many families were able to even contact their family members and yet this couple failed to see what they have gotten out of such difficult situation. I personally blame the mother more. Even though it is understandable that she's terribly devastated with the loss of her daughter, she shouldn't try to look for replacements by adopting another look-alike of her daughter and disown her husband. She failed to see that by doing so, she chose to lose her whole family than trying to rebuild one with her husband who still loves her very much.
Other than showing various stories of how people coping with their losts, the film also touched on the political aspect of the incident, such as the local government not doing exactly much for those who were affected by the tsunami but rather focused more on the economic aspects of the area. In the film where the bellboy went back to his village he saw his home is still in a rut and instead of having officials coming over the help recovering people and the area, bulldozers and and constructions were set up instead. His home was being seized over to build on for commercial use and it can be very hard to deal with for a person who just survived a disaster. it's times like this that the government should make use of to gain the support of the people by providing help and fundings into rebuilding their lives and show concern. If they do not make use of the opportunity, chances are the people would not be willing to show support and might even move to other countries and migrate.
on the other hand, the english family faced problems such as the mother having a difficult time trying to pull her family back together after her husband has died. i feel that her part of the story is probably much easier to relate to somehow though i'm not sure why. it is very true that foreigners often have problems seeking help from their own countries. Embassies are not exactly the best authority to seek help from in times like this due to slow efficiency and logistics. should i be in her position i'll probably be exasperated like hell and yet at the same time i have to remain calm and sane for my children, and also on the other hand cope with me becoming a widow. thank god chances of me being in this position is kindda low but i must say i thought the make up and fake blood on the husband look really fake and gross.
Over all, although i do find the movie being somewhat a little inaccurate or even exaggerating at some point, or even corny, it does give people a good idea of the aftermath of a natural disaster. this is something which i believe singaporeans will have a hard time understanding since the most we can experience here are little trembles from neighboring countries' earthquakes etc. but would i consider this film to be the best material for understanding and learn how to cope with the aftermath of a natural disaster? probably not. I believe the real deal is way more serious and after all, acting out and trying to deal with serious loss of family members and home is definitely a hell of a difference.
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