this presentation is the summarised form of documentary "AGE OF STUPID" in this documentary it is been depicted by our present action what will be our future year will be by global warming a beautifully explained this documentary tells about global warming and this documentary is been explained in a pictorial form which is eye-catching and at the same time eye opening this presentation can be used as to explain global warming also
AGE OF STUPID;presentation based on global warming
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2. Acknowledgement
I would like to express my special thanks of
gratitude to my teacher viyushi mam as well as
god who gave me the golden opportunity to do
this wonderful project on the topic AGE OF
STUPID, which also helped me in doing a lot of
Research and i came to know about so many
new things I am really thankful to them.
Secondly i would also like to thank my parents
and friends who helped me a lot in finalizing this
project within the limited time frame.
4. As population is increasing 3 globe is
required to fulfil their needs.
5. This person is climbing the mountain for last 150
year he tells the difference between temperature
earlier it was a beautiful summer turn into hot
summer days.
23. Moto of documentary
The word “stupid” is one that I shy away from due to it
being judgmental, emotionally charged, and insensitive to
the mentally handicapped. However, this documentary, The
Age of Stupid, makes a compelling case for how things are
not being done to mitigate climate disruption, and how
things are not being done to support the renewable energy
sector, that can be seen in toto as being nothing other than
stupid. Pete Postlethwaite stars in the film. The film is set
in 2055, where Pete’s character does a retrospective
looking back on our current period of time to investigate
what went wrong to cause climate disruption, which has by
then caused the veritable extinction of humans. He does
this by using: film clips of real events that are happening in
our contemporary times that look at consumerism and
energy use; through the experiences of several people who
live in different countries; and commentary.
24. Questions Raised by the Film
The film asks some good rhetorical questions. It asks:
“Why were 100 railways in cities like New York, Philadelphia and
Los Angeles bought up and then deliberately destroyed?”
“Why did the electric car get scrapped” (in the mid-1990s) while
showing a picture of the EV1.
“Why were we [meaning the US], along with Australia, the only
two countries not to sign the original Kyoto Climate Treaty?”
“Why was the same PR firm employed by the tobacco industry to
persuade the public that smoking is healthy, then employed by
the oil industry to convince us that there is still doubt about
climate change?”
“Alternative [meaning renewable] energy has been available for
50 years. Why have we barely used it?”
“Why were solar panels taken off the White House?”
Then the film endeavors to answer these questions. While its
claims seem true enough to me, more documentation would have
bolstered its case.
25. Summary of documentary
The Age of Stupid
by Michael Wehner, Senior Climate Scientist,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:
While an independent film highlighting potential outcomes of global climate change
could provide a good foundation for intelligent discussion of the issues, “The Age of
Stupid” is a dangerous film undermining mainstream efforts to raise public
awareness of the hazards of climate change. I cannot recommend this film to
the climatechangeeducation.org audience, as it is seriously flawed.
Rather than picking the film apart point by point, let’s cut to the chase and focus on
the most dangerous and fundamental flaw: The future archivist activities that imply
a total breakdown of human society due to global warming. This scenario may make
for good filmmaking, but it makes for really bad science. Not only is the whole idea
itself preposterous, predicting it will occur in 2055 is downright ridiculous. This is not
an outcome considered likely in either the IPCC assessment reports or any of the
national assessments. Given how central the catastrophic failure of society is to the
film's message, this alarmist film is more likely to fuel the arguments of climate
change skeptics rather than foster informed and productive discussions of this
extremely important issue.
26. Sadly, a major breakdown of society by 2055
is feasible, not specifically from climate
change, but by a combination of a global
financial bubble collapse, rising
population/demands, depleting resources and
increasingly wacky weather crippling
attempts to rectify the situation. Humanity's
inability to deal with slo-mo disasters doesn't
help either. We can cope with sabre-tooth
tiger attacks but not events that are spread
over decades.
27. conclusion
it clearly points to where humanity is headed
if we don't wake up and get serious about
addressing the climate/energy issue.
Like you I try to avoid inflammatory language
but in this case simply using the word stupid
somehow falls short. There needs to be a few
more defining adjectives used. Like really,
colossally, unfathomably, massively,
unf&^king believably, etc .......