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Life, a miracle in the universe that appeared around 400 billion years ago. We, human, only 200 years old and yet we had succeeded in disrupting the planet s balance that s so essential to life. In the beginning of time, our planet was no more than chaos of fire, dust particles and smokes. The Earth s atmosphere were filled with carbon dioxide, devoid from oxygen. Yet that s where the miracle of life occurred. The Earth that s located neither too far or too near from the sun makes it able to conserve water in liquid form. This is where we start the extraordinary story of life. Today life is a link of chain of renewable living being that succeeded one another for on Earth for nearly 4 billion years. But where do we come from? Where did life first spark into being? Archaebacteria, a primitive life form, single celled organism that s able to withstand the primitive Earth s extreme condition still exist on some of the Earth s extreme environment such as volcanoes. They all feed off the Earth s heat except the Cyanobacteria and blue green algae. They alone had the capacity to capture the sun s energy to make it their own. In other words, they were able to do photosynthesis. They are vital ancestors for yesterday and todays plant species. These tiny bacteria and their billions of descendant transform the Earth s atmosphere. The carbon that poisoned our atmosphere was captured during the photosynthesis process and trapped with these bacteria within the Earth s crust. Thanks to them the carbon from the atmosphere was drained and then the air was filled with oxygen and other life forms could develop. The engine of life is linkage. Everything is linked, nothing is self sufficient. Sharing is everything. Everything balance out creating an equilibrium that sustain the lives of every living being on the planet. The water and air are inseparable. Corrals that was born from marriage from algae and the shells, covers about 1% of ocean but being the habitat of thousand fish species. Trees, the pinnacle chain species, the one who inherited the Cyanobacteria s ability to photosynthesis, the power to capture sun s energy and turn it into its own energy. Animals adapt to their pasture, and their pasture adapt to them. And both gain, it s a symbiosis. The Earth lives in harmony, everything has their own function. That s where we homo sapiens enter the story. We benefit from 4 billion years old legacy. Our 200 years old have changed the face of the Earth. Despite our vulnerability, we were able to take possession of every single habitat and conquer the land like no other species ever before. After 180,000 nomadic years, the humans finally decided to settle down. We re no longer no depended on hunting. We chose to live inbound to wetlands. Just like other species, our principle daily concern is to feed ourselves. Agriculture comes naturally, it s still the world s most wide spread occupation. Half of the human kind tills the soil. Over three quarters of tham are hands. But after relying on muscle power for so long. Human kind finally found a way to tap into energy deep beneath the Earth. Pure energy, energy from the sun captured over million of years by million of plants. Then they become coal, gas, and oil. Since then, for the next 50 years erratically changing on faster pace than previous generation of humanity. Faster and faster, in the last 60 years the Earth s population has almost tripled. And over 2 billion people had moved into the city. Faster and faster, three hundred skyscrapers had been built and a hundred more is under construction. New York, the world s first metropolis, is the symbol of

exploitation of the Earth s resource. America is the first to utilize the power of coal. In the field, the machine had replaced the hands of human. Everything is linked, the development of cultivated land encourage the development of other fields such as chemistry. For example, the invention of pesticide, it s another gift of petrochemical evolution. With the invention of pesticide we don t have to worry anymore bout bad harvest and distant memory. However the toxic from pesticide goes into the deepest cell of plants, water,river. Even though we feed the human twice faster. We replaced diversity with standardization. Faster and faster, the more a country developed the more meat its inhabitant consume. Concentration camp style cattle farm is used to meet the world s demand on meat consumption. Manufactory needs faster than the animals. It offered us comfort many of us could only dream of. Faster than ever before, we became dependant on oil and minerals. 80% of the Earth s resource that s been exploited by human kind is consumed by 20% of the world total human population. Lights, automobiles, television, computers, etc became the measure of our success. Before the end of the century, excessive mining will depleted all of the world s mineral preservation. Faster and faster, globalization makes most consumer s goods travel thousands of kilometers from the country of production to the country of consumption. 90% of trade bout 500 million containers goes by sea every year headed to the world s major hub such as Dubai. Dubai has few natural resources, but with the money from oil, it can bring million tons of material and workers from all over the planet. It has no farmland but it can import food. It has no water either but it has enough money to desalinate sea water to drinking water and build the highest skyscraper. Dubai is a of combination of western model. It has no understanding that our natural resources is depleting. Since 1950, fishing catches has increased five times from 18 to 100 million metric tons per year. Thousands of fishing ship is emptying the sea. Three quarters of fishing grounds are either depleted or endangered being so. Most large fish has been fished out of existence since they have no time to reproduce. Everything is connected, how does it affect human kind? Fish is the stable diet of 1 in 5 people. We ve forgotten that resource are scarce. 500 million humans live on dessert land. There they depend on well replenish by fossil water. Water that accumulated during rainy days on these dessert 25.000 years ago. Fossil waters enable crops to be grown on the dessert. It s a nonrenewable resources, it s going to disappear very soon. In our race to conquer more land, we have reclaimed the world s pasture for agriculture, for our livestock or for buildings. In the last century half of the world s marsh were drained without knowing neither their richness nor their role in nature. Across the planet one nature river in ten no longer flows into the sea for several months of the year. Once the mighty river of Jordan is now just a trickle of water. The water is used for irrigation to grow fruits and vegetables.In India, 21 million wells has been dug since 50 years ago. 30% of the wells in the West India has been abandoned.The ground aquifers are drying. India is going to be the country that suffers the most because of water scarce. The Earth can t keep up. The water catchment along its course has plummeted. The forest provides humidity that s necessary for lives. They store carbon, containing more than the Earth s atmosphere. They re the cornerstone of the climatic balance. They also provides the

habitat for the three quarters of the planet s biodiversity. Yet in barely 40 years, the world s largest rain forest, the Amazon, has been reduced by 20%. Barely 20 years ago Borneo, the 4th largest island in the world, was covered by vast rain forest. At the current rate of deforestation, it will totally disappear within 10 years. The forest of Borneo was replaced with palm field to meet the increasing demands of palm oil in food, cosmetics, and alternative fuel. The biodiversity of Borneo island was replaced with a single species. For local people, it provides employment, as it s an agricultural industry. Another example is eucalyptus, as the increasing demand for paper increased as many as five folds within 15 years, the forest were replaced with eucalyptus forest. It doesn t replace any other forest because on eucalyptus footage is toxic so no plants can grown under the eucalyptus tree. Also as they grow quickly they exhaust a lot of water. But on another place, deforestation is the last resort for the local people to earn a living. And because of the massive deforestation, nothing holds the soil back when it rains. So land slides can be triggered easily by the rain. Here a story of Rapanui tribe, the inhabitant of the most isolated island. The Rapanui exploited their resource until there is nothing left. Their civilization did not survive. On these lands, once stood the highest palm tree. The Rapanui chopped them all down for lumber. The Rapanui can no longer go fishing as there were no tree to build the boat. Nigeria is the biggest oil exporter in Africa yet 70% of Nigeria s population lives under poverty as they have no access on their nation s wealth. The modern development doesn t fulfill it s promises. In 50 years the gap between the rich and the poor will be wider than ever.Today s half of the world s wealth is in the hands of the 2% richest of the population. Now, one in six humans lives in an unhealthy over-populated areas without access to daily necessity such as water, sanitation and electricity. Now a days out oil tankers is getting bigger and bigger, our energy requirements in constantly increasing. The demands on fuel getting bigger and bigger. It s all about carbon. In a few decades the carbon that makes our atmosphere a furnace largely pumped back out by the human activities such as agriculture, industry, deforestation. Our activities released gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide. Without realizing it, we have disrupted the Earth s climatic balance. On the poles where the effect of global warming is most visible, it s happening very fast, very fast. Under the effect of global warming, the Artic ice cap has lost 40% of its thickness. At this rate, it could disappear by 2030. Greenland s ice contains 20% of the world s fresh water. If it melts, sea level would have rise by nearly 7 metres. The sea level rises bout 20 cm, the water is getting warmer and warmer . Corral reefs are extremely sensitive of the change of water s temperature. The world has already lost bout 30% of it s corral reefs. They are essential link in the chain of species. The windstreams are changing direction. Rain cycles are altered. The geography of climate is modified. If sea level continue to rise faster and faster, what would major city like Tokyo, the worlds most populous city do. Every year scientist prediction become more and more alarming. 70% of the world s population lives on the world coastal lines. The migratory phenomena is unavoidable. We re in the process of compromising the climatic balance. The clock of climate change keep ticking. There on Siberia, elsewhere across the Earth, it s so cold that the ground does constantly

frozen. It s known as permafrost, under its surface lies a climatic timeline. Methane, a green gas house 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. If the permafrost melts, it will releases the green gas house causing the green house effect out of control with consequences no one could predict. It ll literally be unknown territory Humanity has no more than 10 years to reverse the phenomena and crossing to this territory. We have very little time to change. It s too late to be a pessimist. What can we do? Senegal, one of the poorest countries on Earth, is the one that invest the most on its people education. Qatar, one of the richest countries has opened its door to the best universities. Culture, research, education, and innovation are inexhaustible resources. In Bangladesh, a man founded a bank that only lent money to the poor. 30 years later it has changed the lives of 150 million people. In Antartica, a land with immense natural resources, no country can claim their own. Natural reserves devoted for peace and science. A treaty signed by 49 states. Costarica has made a choice between military and conservation they no longer has an army. It prefers to devoted it resources on education, eco-tourism, and protection of its primary forest. We have invent alternative renewable energy source sush as solar panel that turns sun light into electricity, geothermal plant, windmill that turns wind into electricity, sea snakes that harness the power of sea waves. What can we do? Let s be responsible customer. We should balance between what we take and conservation. My opinion for Indonesia from the solutions that were offered by the film, I think what we should do is community development based on sustainable development. Why? Firstly,although it sustainable development, it s the human kind first, not the nature. The nature will always be stronger than us. If we cross the line, the planet will simply wipe us from its surface. It s our survival that we strive on. Secondly, why community development? Because I ve witness failure on sustainable development because of its local citizen. The locals will do whatever it takes to survive even if they had to chop down the whole forest. That s why we must break the cycle of poverty firsthand so that the local citizen will learn that selling their natural resource is not the way for long term survival. So if we re able to prosper the people, the nature won t be bothered by them . And they no longer need outside help such as foreign investor to give them a living. As for the altenative energy, the one that suits us the most will be geothermal power plant. We don t have the capacity to run a nuclear power plant. And looking from the geographical side, Indonesia has more volcanoes than blowing winds. The wind is also inconsistent. Aside from that, windmill and sea snakes are too expensive and inefficient for us.