Reflection on ‘Geographic Strange Days: The One Degree Factor’
After viewing ‘Geographic Strange Days: The One Degree Factor’ I had mixed feelings. On one hand I thought that the movie made a lot of good points about climate changes and the arising problems. While on the other hand I thought that some of the things they called ‘problems’ I thought had simple solutions, so I didn’t view them as problems. For example: When they were explaining the decline in caribou populations, Edward Norton, the narrator said they were dwindling because of a couple of different factors. One factor was that instead of going and feeding in the plush valleys they feed more towards the mountain tops because there aren’t as many pesky mosquitoes. Another reason included rain. Mr. Norton explained that it has recently started to rain in December and when the wet water freezes it creates a sort of shield over the grass, which the caribou feed on. This leads to the caribou not eating enough in spring which means they don’t have as much fat on their bodies, so when winter comes they are at a disadvantage. Also, during the winter they don’t feed as much due to the rain so they don’t reproduce on a healthy scale.
I honestly feel like there is a very simple solution to this problem… spray for mosquitoes! If you spray for them this means that the caribou are more likely to come down the mountain and not use as much energy looking for food while eating more so once winter comes they are healthy and can reproduce at a healthy rate. I am not saying that we need to eradicate the mosquitoes all together because I know that there are other animals they eat and rely on mosquitoes to live, but just control their populations.
There was also another part of the movie that I thought there were simple solutions. When Edward Norton was talking of the zooplankton populations going down I thought to myself “Why don’t they just farm raise zooplankton and dumb it into the ocean to help increase their numbers?” I know that this one might be a hard solution, and one of the key questions to this solution would be how to pay for farm raising zooplankton. Well, I have also thought of the solution to that problem. Tax. I think that in order to fund the farm raising of zooplankton there should be a tax on ALL boats on the west coast now since there are so many boats the tax to each individual wouldn’t be significant. How much a certain person pays for the tax depends on how big their boating vessel is. You could also tax industries that are a certain distance from the coast as well.
I know that my solutions might not be solutions at all, but I think that they are somewhere to start!
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