While reading “Losing Earth” there are a quite few turning points in the article. One of the biggest turning points I think is when William Nierenberg goes against his own dating while talking to the press. In his article “Changing Climate” Nierenberg says ” That actions had to be taken immediately before all the details could be know or else it would be too late.” But during the press interview he mention “caution, not panic.” He also stated basically how he believed how though the climate would get worse, that American technology would find a way to solve the problem. This is just one example of how I was appalled by how scientist and politicians both had several oppurtunities to take sensible actions but instead did nothing. I can only conclude that they did this out of fear or for economic growth.
I do not know about a Disney movie, but this could be an incredible political thriller. It could be shot in the same way that a movie called the “The Big Short” was made to explain the 2009 economic collapse. The overall ending in the article as a whole was framed as a tragedy. As with many tragedies, there were several points in the story where action could have been taking to stop the catastrophe but people decided not to. Unfortunately this is just the classic story of “kicking the can” down the road, hoping that a future generation will take care of the problem.
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