Extinction, like Karma, is the greatest equalizer on Earth that balances and safeguards the forces of nature without giving any regard to the destructive and ruinous effect that it may have upon an individual, family, community, society or the world. When it happens, it just happens and razes everything to ground leaving very few clues to the future generations to figure out how the event might have transpired to trigger and collapse the multitudes of diverse species to dust and fossil.
There have been 5 major extinctions in the past that has completely wiped out and washed away even the slightest traces of footprints of many organisms, including the Dinosaurs, from the face of the Earth. Scientists are still searching for the exact solution to unlock the mystery that has obscured the past beyond recognition like a thick fog on a road. What's in it for a layman other than reading about the unresolved and always-revising pieces of scientific puzzle as a mere fact for marks at schools ?
The secrets decoded will be extremely helpful to learn from the mistakes of our predecessors to not repeat them again. Also, we can be much equipped to handle such an eventuality if it tends or shows any signs to happen in our lifetime. Ultimately, survival is the key no matter how much money you have in your bank account or the plenty of laurels and accolades that is showered upon a person. Fight or Flight mode can be judiciously used by proper Sense&Respond when any cataclysmic event hits the Earth.
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| As how I see the power of information to be, however frivolous or indispensable. |
One might argue that if Death is certain because of a catastrophe then how can the deeply buried knowledge of the past will be of any help. It is very simple. The knowledge could at least help mitigate the pain and suffering endured while dying if not negate the final act to meet God completely!
How does extinction fit in the context of Planet Earth 2 where the latter is more about discovering the wilderness in its natural and pristine form? It will be answered soon.
Planet Earth 2 created enough ripples when their new trailer was launched prior to the first episode's airing.
How does extinction fit in the context of Planet Earth 2 where the latter is more about discovering the wilderness in its natural and pristine form? It will be answered soon.
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| Chill Man and Woman.. |
If Planet Earth 1 was a revelation and mind-blowing, then PE 2 just got better and better like the wine stored in a barrel. The trailer was simply spectacular stuff that it immediately created a sense of mighty strong appeal and evoked interest of inordinate proportions as the previous installment to not just float and swim but deep dive into the wondrous beauty of our Mother Earth along with the ever passionate narration of David Attenborough. Some of the scenes shown in the trailer like the Stallions battle for supremacy (More on it in Part 2) was so breath-taking that without any iota of doubt, PE 2 would have easily outdistance the glory of PE 1 by a parsec!
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| The daring duel and racy escape of the century..Dealt further in Part 2! |
Because of our excessive and outrageous parasitic mind set to leech away anything and everything in sight for our avarice to monetizing the resources, we have become thoroughly oblivious and stupendously blind to the fact that the magnificence of our distinct and diverse planet is in a peril as deep as Mariana Trench. But, we just know it without bothering to understand its ramifications in our hasty pursuit towards societal appreciation, reputation, status and prestige which is important but not as critically essential as the survival of our children and grandchildren who will definitely give us all an earful when the consequences of our actions befalls their generation.
Where will we go and hide our heads in shame when they ask us explicit and heart-hitting questions as:
a) How could you let this kind of devastation happen to your own sons and daughters?
b) Why didn't you take any measures to stop or prevent this murderous mess?
It's no rocket science but elementary science that we learnt (Read: conveniently forgot!) in our schools about the complex inter-relationships and interdependencies between and amongst the entire living beings in our planet. We have literally become blinkered and cocooned into our own false sense of comfort that we have taken the Earth for granted that she will always provide us with what we want and desire at any point in time by overlooking some hard hitting facts.
Take for example. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It is said by scientists that the worst bleaching has happened last year due to excessive pumping of CO2 in the atmosphere by us which has resulted in the temperatures of the oceans to rise thereby having an adverse effect on the flora and fauna inhabiting the reefs. The impact will not be just a death knell to a myriad marine life but also to us in terms of economics and health as we are utterly disrupting the natural steady and constant flow of the food chain on a never-seen-before massive scale. I guess the time is just round the corner where we will rename Great Barrier Reef as Great Barrier GRIEF!
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| If this is not evidence, then people will still say it's photoshopped so as to be in complete denial mode to the effects of global warming. |
Likewise, scientists all over the world aver that we are on the cusp of a sixth extinction that is heading our way at an alarming rate due to the extensive and widespread human activities which is propelled by our lust for greed, power, self-image and money that we are losing track of the reality happening around us which would ultimately mean the suffocation and extermination of millions, maybe even billions, across the globe. This is not to paint a gruesome or macabre situation. The fact is that the scientists are pegging the rate of extinction at 1000 times faster because of our fingerprints firmly imprinted across the deceased and to-be dead species which might include even you and me if the grim situation remains and persists in such an uncontrollable and unacceptable fashion.
Fortunately, documentaries like Planet Earth are the perfect wake up to all of us to really care about the environment, feel that our world has a space and place for each and every sentient being, big or small, to co-habit peacefully and live harmoniously with nature as it is. We ought to hammer the fact into our heads like a nail to a wall that the Earth can survive and sustain without us for any number of years but there is no way whatsoever that we could exist without her. Some might say that if the Earth becomes irreparable, we will colonise Mars or the nearest planet with our available technologies.
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| Sure to happen . No questions on it. Unless..... |
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| Actually, the meme should read "Planet first". But, you got the message. That's more crucial here. |
So, what happens if Mars also becomes uninhabitable due to our insatiable appetite for self aggrandisement? No. I am not being pessimistic here. Since we have already set a precedence to Earth by rendering her sterile and inhospitable which resulted us to jump ship, sorry Rocket!, to Mars, there is every chance that we might again end up making the Red Planet to beg on her knees by our plunderous and ravaging attitude.
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| If the Red Planet were to be a person at that point of time.. |
X---To be concluded---X
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Thank you, Sir.
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