Environmental Science: The Day after Tomorrow Film

Environmental science
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Introduction
There have been raging debates concerning climate and environmental change. Both ecological and climatic change is among the topics that top in scientific and socio-political discourses. The domain of discussion on this theme has extended its wings to the entertainment and art industry. Expositions in thrillers, fantasy, and fictional stories in books and movies unravel the intricacy surrounding the topic of climate with its related issues. Fantasies' narratives are currently emerging to capture the environmental devastation, and the idea of escaping to space is becoming a reality. The role of fantasies and fictional narratives act as a springboard upon which we gain motivation and challenges. They also provide a purview for relooking at consequences of environmental crisis in the context of environmental imagination in both the 20th and 21st centuries. This paper is an exploration of two films, The Day After Tomorrow Film and   Interstellar, in terms of environmental crisis is and consequences, vital motivating factors, and their relevance in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Day after Tomorrow Film
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science film directed by Roland Emmerich and is based on the book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. The frustrations led to the development of the film that the scientific community suffered as they strive to create awareness of the dangers associated with human-induced global warming to the public and politicians (Von Burg, 2012). As a result of ineffective public awareness regarding the risks of global warming, the scientific community embarked on an unconventional approach of deploying the film ‘The Day After Tomorrow (TDAT)’ to portray and to dramatize the adverse effects of global warming.
When The Day After Tomorrow (TDAT) was released in 2004, it caused palpable discussions across the globe (Bilandzic & Sukalla, 2019). The majority of environmental activists and agencies supported the film’s issue, but the scientific community was a bit skeptical. The film was quite spectacular, unconventional, and shocking. Many people expected that temperatures were subject to insidious rise but with variation in time and space. However, the film's portrayal climatic changes were abrupt, i.e., there was a climatic change towards the Ice Age, .but this did not create pessimism; instead, it reinforced people’s willingness to intervene in climatic issues.
A glimpse into film’ plot illustrates intertwining stories that unfold environmental and climatic conditions at episodic times. Jack Hall, also called Dennis Quad, in the film, is on an expedition with his colleagues to Antarctica. They went to drill ice core samples for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ice broke off from the rest of the content, which proved nearly fatal to Jack, who almost falls to death. Jack presented his findings presented to the United Nations conference. He reported that global warming changed the earth’s climate into Ice Age about ten thousand years ago and cautions that this could reoccur again in about a hundred ...