ONE PLANET, ONE EARTH

By: MS. GWENMIGUELLE G. DAVID

After watching One Planet, One Earth, I realized how little I know about the creatures
that are living in our planet and how serious of a matter climate change is. We tend to take
things for granted because it was given freely to us such as clean water, breathable air but some
animals and in some cases, people do not have the same luxury.

The episode gave me ideas on how animals and plants interact with each other and how
intelligent these creatures are. From a plant trapping a bee to put pollens in the insect to spread
their plant race to how mammals survive regardless of the weather condition their place is in. I
was amazed on how complex the mating rituals of some animals are. Partly we are all the same,
the episode showed a group of male birds rehearsing a dance number to present to their
friend’s female friend. The dance routine was used to woo the female bird. It baffles me how
they come up with such methods to woo their female counterparts just like us humans.

It saddens me how we as humans came to this situation that made it hard for those
creatures to live normally. All of us in some ways are interconnected for us to function as a
planet. Everything, no matter how little have an impact on how the planet will live.

From the winds that produce dust that brings nutrients to the ocean, the vast seas of ice
in the Arctic regions that protects our planet by reflecting solar radiation away from the
surface preventing the earth from overheating. Climate change is a real issue that is very
harmful to the planet. Human activity is the main cause of climate change. People burn fossil
fuels and convert land from forests to agriculture. People have burned more and more fossil
fuels and changed vast areas of land from forests to farmland.

Ice in the Arctic region is dissolving in a very alarming rate which results to raising sea
levels, changing salinity and disrupting ocean currents.

The Earth and its surviving life forms would be better off without humans unless we get
serious about slowing global warming. If a person thinks that doing something so little to help
the planet such as segregating trash will have an impact, imagine 7 billion people with the same
mindset.

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GWEN MIGUELLE G. DAVID MASocStEdCONTEMPORARY WORLD GEOGRAPHY