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Before the Flood Movie & Laudato Si Reflection sheet

Directions: As we watch the 2016 documentary movie Before the Flood with Leonardo DiCaprio

use the questions below to analyze your thoughts. These are your personal thoughts, please make

sure your responses are detailed and provide explanations whenever possible. If you missed the

movie in class, it can be viewed at http://archive.org/details/youtube-90CkXVF-Q8M

1.) Briefly describe your view on climate change. Is it real? Is it caused by human activity?

Be honest! I believe climate change is real and is caused by human activity. Human activities

like livestock farming and the burning of fossil fuels emit greenhouse gasses that influence the

earth’s climate and temperature. Greenhouse gasses trap sun rays, which increase the earth’s heat

and cause global

warming.

2.) Briefly describe the key pieces of evidence presented in the movie, supporting the

climate change argument. The evidence presented to support the climate change argument

includes the fact that Greenland has entered a feedback melting loop. While ice dispels sunlight,

water holds the heat and absorbs warmth. Water is slowly encroaching the city as more ice cover

turns into the water because of the heat caused by climate change. The sea level will rise by

several feet if Greenland melts. In the film, Dr Enric Sala likens Greenland to an air conditioning

system for the Northern part of the globe ("Before the Flood - Full Movie | National Geographic:

National Geographic: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive", 2021). When

the cooling system fades away, weather patterns would change making droughts more disastrous.

The movie also suggests that man-made climate change has made the earth warmer. This will

lead to severe storms, the collapse of entire ecosystems, and the collapse of industries. Within

three decades, the marine ecosystem has experienced a 50% loss of its coral ("Before the Flood -

Full Movie | National Geographic: National Geographic: Free Download, Borrow, and

Streaming: Internet Archive", 2021). The oceans absorb carbon dioxide and become warmer.

The warmth makes the oceans go through acidification, a process that increases the acidity of the

ocean water. This event inhibits the formation of coral reefs. The coral will vanish in a few

decades, reversing a thousand centuries of evolution. Coral reefs provide food for millions of

people around the world and sustain a wide range of species. Another key piece of evidence is

that millions of people prepare meals with biomass, mostly cow dung. Many people around the

world do not have access to electricity or alternate sources of heat. These people rely on cow

dung to generate heat ("Before the Flood - Full Movie | National Geographic: National

Geographic: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive", 2021). The film

suggests that putting all the millions of people on the electricity grid would harm the

environment unless the shift included sustainable

energy.

3.) Have any of your ideas involving global warming changed because of this film? Explain

why or why not and use examples from the movie! My ideas about global warming have

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Name: Class Section: Before the Flood Movie & Laudato Si Reflection sheet Directions: As we watch the 2016 documentary movie Before the Flood with Leonardo DiCaprio use the questions below to analyze your thoughts. These are your personal thoughts, please make sure your responses are detailed and provide explanations whenever possible. If you missed the movie in class, it can be viewed at http://archive.org/details/youtube-90CkXVF-Q8M 1.) Briefly describe your view on climate change. Is it real? Is it caused by human activity? Be honest! I believe climate change is real and is caused by human activity. Human activities like livestock farming and the burning of fossil fuels emit greenhouse gasses that influence the earth’s climate and temperature. Greenhouse gasses trap sun rays, which increase the earth’s heat and cause global warming. 2.) Briefly describe the key pieces of evidence presented in the movie, supporting the climate change argument. The evidence presented to support the climate change argument includes the fact that Greenland has entered a feedback melting loop. While ice dispels sunlight, water holds the heat and absorbs warmth. Water is slowly encroaching the city as more ice cover turns into the water because of the heat caused by climate change. The sea level will rise by several feet if Greenland melts. In the film, Dr Enric Sala likens Greenland to an air conditioning 1 system for the Northern part of the globe ("Before the Flood - Full Movie | Na ...
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