Monday, April 28, 2014

"A Fierce Green Fire"

Summary:
"A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet", has five different parts or acts to it. Act 1 focuses on the conservation movement of the ‘60s, the Sierra Club, David Brower and the struggle to stop dams in the Grand Canyon. Act 2 looks at ‘70s environmentalism around pollution, focusing on the battle led by Lois Gibbs over Love Canal. Act 3 is about alternative ecology strands, with the main story being Greenpeace’s campaign to save the whales. Radicals and mainstream come together to fight against whaling, one of environmentalism’s greatest victories, yet this battle must be continuously fought again and again. Act 4 tells of the rise of global issues in the ‘80s. It focuses on the struggle to save the Amazon, led by Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers. Act 5 concerns climate change. The video closes with movements all over the world up to the present that are working toward making people more environmentally conscious. 

2 more sources: 
1) www.savethearctic.org. This source's main goal is to get people to realize that we need to act today if we want to save the arctic. Over the last 30 years, we’ve lost as much as three-quarters of the floating sea ice cover at the top of the world. It's melting because of our use of dirty fossil fuel energy, and in the near future it could be ice free for the first time since humans walked the Earth. Ice has been a permanent feature of the Arctic ocean for hundreds of thousands of years and plays a key role in keeping our planet cool. If the ice disappears this would not only be devastating for the polar bears, narwhals, walruses and other species that live there but also for people. 
Protecting the ice means protecting us all, which is why people need to sign the petition on this website that's going to demand world leaders to declare a global sanctuary around the North Pole.

2) greenpeace.org. "The Bees Burden: why bees need our help and we need the help of bees." This source's main goal is to illustrate how important bees are to our world. Bees appear to be a small link in our food production chain but in fact they play a huge and critical role in our food security; one
third of our food, and most of the flowering plants on this planet, are pollinated by bees and other insect pollinators. The population of these insects has slowly been declining as a result of the broken agriculture system which uses chemicals that are toxic to bees. The author of this blog thinks the best way to help solve the problem of the bees is to continue to expose the failure of the current farming model and its negative impact.

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