Environment Pollution

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Our environment includes all living and non-living things on our planet earth. Earth is a beautiful place with lavish green lands, diverse species, oceans and natural resources. The valuable things in the natural environment are natural resources. But over the past few decades global warming is causing serious damage to our environment..

 Global Warming:  Impact on Environment:

Global warming is the rise in the temperature of the earth and atmosphere caused by the emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This release of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has severe effects on our environment. The air, water and atmosphere are toxified due to the greenhouse gas effects. Rise in population, burning of fossil fuels, clearing forests, farming and destroying garbage are major causes of global warming

Let us have a look at some severe impacts of global warming on our environment:

•     Global warming causes more frequent and severe heat waves that give rise to several health hazards for living species.
•     Many species are affected by the rise in temperature and we are also losing some of the species due to global warming. The range of species that depend on cooler weather will face withering habitats.
•     Since the past century sea levels have raised 6.7 inches due to global warming. Ocean Glaciers melt when the earth gets warmer causing sea levels to rise.
•     Global warming also causes rise in acidification of the oceans chemistry due to the effect of carbon dioxide in atmosphere reacting to salt water. This creates risk for the ocean species.
•     Natural calamities such as droughts and floods have become more common due to global warming.
•     Due to severe heat stokes and wildfires several trees on the mountain are dying.
•     More pressure on groundwater will rise due to droughts.

Thus, global warming is a serious problem exploiting our environment and has to be prevented. We need to protect our environment from getting damaged further and avoid activities that cause damage to environment. Planting more and more trees and protecting forests and reforestation should be encouraged. Educating people about population control is vital. It is important for us to save more and more energy and decrease the use of fuels.

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Springtime for Nazis: How the Satire of “Jojo Rabbit” Backfires

ika Waititi’s movie is conspicuously about the presence of good Nazis who, at critical moments, conducted their own forms of resistance from inside the institutions of power.

At last, the movie that Bialystock and Bloom, in “The Producers,” would have 

they got out of prison and went legit. Whereas they turned their production of “Springtime for Hitler,” intended as pro-Nazi propaganda, into the world’s unfunniest comedy in pursuit of colossal failure, “Jojo Rabbit,” meant as an anti-Nazi spectacle, is the world’s unfunniest comedy made in pursuit of success. Even though the target of satire in “Jojo Rabbit” is clearly the Nazis, the movie sharply but unintentionally satirizes itself, as well as its makers and the movie industry at large that saw fit to produce, release, and acclaim it. 

 
Although made by the celebrated writer and director Taika Waititi and released by a major studio, “Jojo Rabbit,” with its combination of extreme goofball humor (including a campily over-the-top caricature of Hitler, played by Waititi himself) and grim and earnest portrayal of the terrors of Germany’s genocidal tyranny, plays more the blinkered follies to which Hollywood and its potentates are susceptible.

The film is set in the last year of the Second World War, in a town in Germany where a ten-year-old boy, Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), an enthusiastic new member of the Hitler Youth, lives with his mother, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson). Jojo’s father isn’t home—Rosie says that he’s away at war, but other adults tell Jojo that his father is a coward—and it’s revealed that he is suspected of being a deserter. Rosie, for her part, is quietly but determinedly hostile to the Nazi regime. Yet Jojo has decorated his room with a profusion of Nazi posters and memorabilia, and he’s often visited by his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Waititi), who turns up in the boy’s moments of emotional need, bucking up his courage or assuaging his humiliations. (In his first appearance in the film, Hitler urges Jojo to “Heil” him more confidently.)

Jojo’s Hitler Youth brigade, uniformed and organized in the lighthearted tone of a scout troop from “Moonrise Kingdom,” is led by a trio of adults, Captain Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell), Fred Finkel (Alfie Allen), and Fräulein Rahm (Rebel Wilson), who express virulent, over-the-top mockeries and hatreds of Jews and lead the boys in a monstrous ritual of cruelty. In teaching them to kill for the Führer, they order one of the boys—Jojo—to take hold of a rabbit and snap its neck. Jojo can’t do it, and runs away to the taunts of one leader, who says that if he can’t kill a rabbit maybe he himself is a scared rabbit. The boys start in with a mocking singsong chant of “Jojo Rabbit,” which is where the movie’s title comes from—but while Jojo is running the imaginary Hitler appears beside him, to remind him that it’s good to be a rabbit, that rabbits are wise and cunning and live to fight another day.

But when Jojo is seriously wounded in a mishap with a grenade caused by his clumsy effort (backed by his imaginary friend, Hitler), he’s relegated to noncombat tasks such as putting up posters in town, and he starts spending a lot of time at home alone. Hearing a noise upstairs, he investigates, finds a cut in a wood panel, pries it open with his Hitler Youth knife, and discovers a space where a teen-age girl is hiding—or, rather, unbeknownst to him, is being hidden by Rosie. Jojo is scared when he finds her. He thinks that she’s a ghost; she denies it, and he asks, “What are you?” She answers, “A Jew,” and he responds, “Gesundheit.” This is the best joke in the movie.

The girl, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie), was a friend of Jojo’s late sister, Inge. Despite Jojo’s inculcated hatred for Jews, the lonely and curious boy spends time with Elsa in the upstairs aerie, gleans bits and pieces of her life story, and, despite the difference in their ages (he’s ten, she’s around sixteen), he develops a crush on her (and displays it by writing letters in which he impersonates her former boyfriend, a Jewish resistance fighter named Nathan). Resistance is everywhere: Rosie is revealed, early on, to be more than just privately averse to Nazis: she’s an active, albeit (as far as the movie shows) nonviolent resister. When she and Jojo pass a gibbet in the town square where five ostensible traitors have been hanged, Jojo asks her what they did, and she answers, “What they could.” As proof of their so-called crime, the authorities have pinned small anti-Nazi handbills to their clothing; it turns out that Rosie is the source of those flyers.