Mirzeoff Chapter 6 Response.

In the book 'How to See the World' by Nicholas Mirzoeff he brings up some incredible points in chapter 6 'The Changing World'. Hen discusses the level of change humans have caused during their time on Earth. What I find interesting about this chapter is how little we as a society hear about these extreme impacts on our planet. Social media platforms fail to deliver this hugely important message to people, so we have no choice but to ignore these continuous environmental disturbances. Although, as of late there have been documentaries and articles that have been acknowledged and heard because society want to listen. These sources have been mainly surrounding the topic of Climate Change, which is something that needs to be addressed, and quickly. It has been an issue that humans have caused to build up over many years now, and its all due to our extreme pollution that we give back to our environment. Climate change is causing ice to melt, therefore making water rise, and it's all due to humans, which brings me back to Mirzoeff's chapter 6. He discusses how we take out entire species in a matter of years and how we contaminate whole rivers killing fish and often ourselves. If we continue to use our Earth's resources poorly, our future generations will face the consequences. This is why I have chosen to do my next assignment on the topic of 'How we shape the natural world'.

Source 1: Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 'How to See the World'.

There are chapters in this book that support how poorly humans treat the environment. I will take some facts from this book and relate to how changes have been made to the world for centuries, but explain how things are currently rapidly increasing in terms of Earth's possible destruction.

Source 2: DiCaprio, Leo. Stevens, Fisher. 'Before the Flood'.

An extremely recent documentary about climate change and how the government try and hide this catastrophic issue, but if enough people spoke up the world will fall in line and a positive change can be made. Again, explains human's poor use of Earth's resources and shows the impact that this has when taken to an extent.

Source 3: Guggerheim, Davis. 'An Inconvenient Truth'.

Another documentary about climate change that says it all there in the title. Shows that people are choosing to ignore this issue, but also relates a lot to politics and how they wrongly influence how we think and what we see. They control what information is available to us in terms of climate change and this impacts hugely on how much we know and how much we care about the topic.

Graph showing Earth's current CO2 level, clearly higher now than ever before.

Shaftel, Holly. 'Proxy (Indirect) Measurements'. Mar 2017, Computer Generated Graph, https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

9/11 Memorial Flooded after Hurricane Sandy Hit in 2012. A show of the environments unpredictable natural disasters caused by Global Warming.

Berman, Taylor. 'The 9/11 Museum is Flooded with 5 Feet of Water'. Nov 2012, Photograph,  https://www.infowars.com/the-911-museum-is-flooded-with-5-feet-of-water/

Graph showing leading causes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

EPA. 'Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions'. Feb 2017, Computer Generated Graph, https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions