I recently heard through the APES listserv that this week on CNN, Anderson Cooper is hosting a special called "Planet in Peril". This week's assignment then is to:
1. Participate in the Roundtable Discussion. Send in a picture (or preferably a video) of your question to CNN at the link below and it may be included on the show.
2. Watch the show on Oct. 23rd and 24th and each night post your response to our blog.
3. Create a podcast on "How Green Your Are" and submit it to CNN. They may use it in a news broadcast.
Any change in our planet will come from each individual trying to make a difference. This is your opportunity to use Web 2.0 technologies to educate others, get your opinions out there, and show how you are helping to improve our world.
Resources:
Planet in Peril - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/planet.in.peril/
1. Participate in the Roundtable Discussion. Send in a picture (or preferably a video) of your question to CNN at the link below and it may be included on the show.
2. Watch the show on Oct. 23rd and 24th and each night post your response to our blog.
3. Create a podcast on "How Green Your Are" and submit it to CNN. They may use it in a news broadcast.
Any change in our planet will come from each individual trying to make a difference. This is your opportunity to use Web 2.0 technologies to educate others, get your opinions out there, and show how you are helping to improve our world.
Resources:
Planet in Peril - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/planet.in.peril/
8 comments:
Planet in Peril was an amazing documentary. I thought I knew about most of the effects humans are having on the earth, but I had no idea how drastically we are actually changing the planet.
I thought it was crazy that countries have laws that inhibit their police from catching smugglers. I noticed that the poorer the country and the more desperate the people are for money hence the more illegal activities are going on there.
I liked how they used terms that I knew from APES (tropic cascade, apex predator, keystone species, etc.). It didn’t sound like they were talking down to the viewers. I also enjoyed how they didn’t hold anything back even thought they were filming illegal activities, and how they put themselves into harms way to get their footage.
It was great how they mixed environmental issues and informing their viewers about the animals.
Planet in peril was an interesting documentery discussing the inevitable destruction of our Planet Earth. I agree with them where they say that global warming is not avoidable by cutting down CO2 consumption and usage. I feel that we are putting only a minor percentage of the CO2 into the air while most of it is coming from photosyntehsis. I like how they went from place to place explaining how global warming is affect different environments. Like in the Carterette Islands the sea level is rising from the volcano tha is sinking beneath them also from the ice that is melting in the artics. And in Greenland how they showed the new island that broke off because the ice is melting and a section of it broke off.
I think they should have gotten more facts and stuff. They just explored the areas but didnt really back any of their findings with facts. I also think they should have done something that is pertaining more closer to where we are so we can relate with the issues more. I didnt feel a need to be concerned because it wasnt directly affecting me so I didnt want to take an action as much as I would if they talked about the US or anywhere closer to Georgia.
In the CNN series, Planet in Peril, the effects of global warming and other environmental changes were discussed and evaluated. The series was very informative and I enjoyed the fact that the explorers interacted with the environment; they took snorkeling trips to the bleached coral reefs of Carteret islands and helicopter flights over the glaciers of Greenland. However, I did not appreciate the scene where they shot a mother polar bear with a tranquilizing gun from a hovering helicopter. The poor mother bear and her two cubs were then studied, weighed, and tagged. Also, I felt like the series should have taken a side on the global warming argument. Planet in Peril never said whether or not they believed humans were causing glaciers to melt and the Carteret Island to sink. If the series would have made an argument for one side of the debate, their facts would have been more convincing to an audience. Overall, I enjoyed the series. It was able to keep my attention and give scientific facts while helping me review environmental vocabulary.
I absolutely loved the Planet in Peril show over the past few days. When I was thinking about the environment before I actually watched the show, I thought I had forgotten about several things and was not nearly as educated in Environmental Science. Turns out, I remembered several key terms and understood everything from biodiversity to tropic cascade to keystone species.
2 things I though were great about the show were the use of environmental terms as well as how they had interaction with experts on the subjects they studied. For example, I thought it was cool when Anderson Cooper went to Yellowstone National Park to site the newly introduced wolves. In any other show, they would just do a documentary about the subject. However, this is cool because they went right up to the source to explore. As I stated earlier, the use of different key terms were used throughout the show. This not only made the facts more credible but also educated others in things they did not know before.
The only thing that I might not have liked about the show was how the subjects they dealt with were almost disgusting. However, in the world we live in today, we need to be aware of the dangers that surround us. For example, the red or brown river in China and how it killed a man by giving him cancer. The sad thing was seeing the family cry because pollution killed one of their loved ones. However, with emotional stories come emotional people. That story affected me so much that I even stated to get teary eyed while watching.
Overall, I really loved the show and would definitely tune in if it was a weekly event.
In this show they are very good at showing the troubles with people interfering with the environment. They are showing the bad sides of the illegal trading of animals in Southeast Asia. Even though people are making lots of money doing these underground sales, animals are suffering immensely. Even though some of the animals are alive when they are sold, many are brutally killed and torn apart, each of their parts being sold to different people. Both people who visit the country and people that live there are participating in this awful thing. Police are trying to stop them, but it is impossible to catch all of the people because it is such a large business. It is sad how many animals are dying just so people can get a new cool rug, or an exotic bird. We should take more care of our earth and realize that there are not unlimited resources. We cannot just take whatever we want to, we need to protect the wildlife around us so that we can keep our earth safe and alive.
CNN’s exclusive “Planet in Peril” was a hard hitting documentary about man’s effect on the planet and what would happen if man continued to influence nature. Anderson Cooper stressed man’s effect on the Polar Regions first and how the glaciers are melting at extreme rate because of global warming. He and Jeff Corwin traveled around the arctic in order to capture some polar bears. When they finally did, they discovered a disturbing fact that the average size and weight of a polar is declining rapidly. Then Anderson Cooper showed the rainforest and how illegal foresters and poachers are ruining it. After that he showed the valiant efforts of IBAMA and local residents of the rainforest and how they are trying to stop the illegal activities, even though they are severely out manned.
Overall “Planet in Peril” was a great show. Anyone who watched it would have their eyes opened to what humans are doing to destroy the planet, and how they can help to slow down the rate of destruction. Anderson Cooper did a great job of narrating and making you feel in the moment. While he focused mainly on human’s effect on global warming, Cooper presented another side of the argument which says that humans aren’t to blame, though he didn’t really elaborate on the argument.
The Planet in Peril documentary was very good. It was great to be able to see what we have been talking about for the past couple of months accuring in real life. I was able to recognize keys terms and know things like apex predator and the different biomes in which the animals showed lived in.
I thought at times the documentary was a tad bit lengthy and wordy, but i thoroughly enjoyed the part on the polar bears and the different technniques that scientist are taking to track and study these mammals. At times it was sad to see the polar bears being tranqualized, but you also knew that it was for a reason and that what the scientists found out from tranquilizing them could help their species in the future.
Hi! This is so exciting to find bloggers! I am a middle school student from California and my Spirit Team and I watched Planet in Peril over a few days. In my opinion, I thought Planet in Peril was a highly educational and promotional video. I belive the context made all of us think, no matter what our beliefs were.
We came up with the idea that we needed to do something! This was a wake up call for all of us, because here, in California, we live a highly sheltered and protected life. We are not exposed to such harsh environments whereas; people in other places and countries have had to go through so much because of what we have put into our Earth. It's terrible to see our Earth, the very planet WE live on, being destroyed in such a way we could all be dead by 2012.
Therefore; my Spirit Team and I will participate in activities for Earth Day like teaching our Elementary School kids how to make recycled paper, ways to save energy, how to recycle etc. We will also be participating in organizations to better the Amazon Rain Forest, stop illegal black market animal trade (torture), and other organizations. Thankyou. It would be cool to talk to you some more.
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