MOVIE: Before the Flood

I have previously shared facts from different documental movies on my instagram(@laurahatesplastic), but now I have decided to make longer posts here. .

I watched Leonardo DiCaprio and National Geographic's movie Before the Flood. It is available on Netflix. The movie was made in 2016, when climate change became a popular topic. The movie is about Leonardo becoming the UN messenger of peace. His big focus was researching and understanding climate change.

Facts I learnt from the movie:

1. Just 97% of scientists believe in climate change.

2. Our economy relies strongly on fossil fuels ( like petroleum, coal, and natural gas) and countries do not want to stop because it is a big industry.

3. There is no such thing as clean fossil fuels.

4. To get fossil fuels it is needed to make dangerous explosions or forests need to be cut down.

5. Top 3 worst emitters are China, USA and India. Yet China and India have made changes by changing to greener energy. Right now USA is doing the least to help the problem.

6. To change the climate situation, we need to stop using fossil fuels.

7. Carbon tax should be made to tax every activity that emits CO2. If something costs more then it might get used less. Elon Musk wants to make electricity cheaper so that people would be more likely to use electric cars and be open to alternative energy sources.

8. Obama did not at first support same sex marriage, but when the people brought his attention to it, he changed his view on the topic and gained way more supporters. Therefore protesting and bringing attention to a problem is useful and will have results.

9. When ice melts then it will start revealing darker areas which will make all the frozen are around melt faster.

10. With the Paris climate agreement they set the goal of maximum 1,5 degree rising in overall temperature, yet that would be the best scenario possible and there aren't any rules that make countries act right away and actively. That is also a reason why Greta is protesting, because Sweden has not made needed changes yet.

11. But Sweden has decreased its fossil fuel consumption as well as Denmark and Finland.(Since 2015 Costa Rica has been 100% green by using only clean energy)

12. In the last 30 years we have lost over 50% of our corals, but if we were to not have coral we would also not have fish.

13. Rainforests get destroyed for different reasons, the most common being palm oil farming and land for farm animals.

14. Burning forests are like big corbon bombs, because normally they collect the carbon is our environment, but when they burn they release all of it back into nature.

15. The areas that will feel the worst effects of climate changes are cold and hot areas, as well as small islands.

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