NAME: Serrano, Josephine M.

BSBAHR-2B

MODULE 10
Week 16
ACTIVITY NO.1: MOVIE REFLECTION!
Instructions:
1. Watch these two movies, “The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012”.
2. Compare and contrast these two movies in terms of their perspectives towards
climate change.
3. Answer the following questions:
3.1. The Day After Tomorrow
3.1.1. What is the field of specialization of Professor Jack Hall? What is
it all about?
 Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from
Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in
the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges
the planet into a new Ice Age.

3.1.2. Why do you think other scientists did not believe on the
predictions of Professor Jack Hall?
 Jack Hall originally makes the claim that shifts in the
weather pattern would occur in one-hundred years. Even
though Hall's prediction of a modern day Ice Age was real,
the time phrase that he predicted was false. His ability to
predict the event but not the period shows the limitations
of science and humans.
3.1.3. How do politics and economic interests affect and interfere on
the decision-making of politicians in this movie?
 The Day After Tomorrow couches itself in both the
political and moral. They’re excessively created, yet
grounded in simple storytelling techniques to say
something more about our present and future. Though
the possibility of a scenario at the center of The Day After
Tomorrow remains impossible, the very real effects of
climate change have only become more urgent.
3.1.4. Who is Professor Terry Rapson, what was his role in the works of
Professor Jack Hall in the movie?

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  Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland
Centre in Scotland, befriends Jack over his views of an
inevitable climate shift. When several buoys in the Atlantic
Ocean show a severe ocean temperature drop, Rapson
concludes Jack's theories are correct.
3.1.5. What were the challenges faced by Professor Hall and his son
during the catastrophic climatic event?
 Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from
Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in
the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges
the planet into a new Ice Age.
3.1.6. What is the main stand of this movie in terms of introducing the
concept of climate change?
 The Day After Tomorrow is loosely based on the theory of
“abrupt climate change.” The plot of the movie is that, as
a result of global warming, ocean currents that circulate
water around the world shut down, heating up the tropics
and cooling the North Atlantic. The result is a catastrophic
storm and a dramatic change in the global climate.

3.2. “2012”
3.2.1. How do politics and economic interests affect and interfere on
the decision-making of politicians in this movie?
 The president and the high authorities called on Proffesor
Jack Hall to advise and take measure on how to live and
also evacuate the residents. The economy was completely
weak in this situation.
3.2.2. What were the challenges faced by Jackson and his family during
the catastrophic climatic event?
 Jackson and his family faced difficulties in the unexpected
collapse of the location in which the plane was landing
while they were in the airplane but in just second the
airplane began to flew and his family was still secure
3.2.3. How does technology cross the humanity in this movie?
 is not just a movie that talks about how people die at the
end of the world, it also reflected humanity and class
separation. Audience can find love, courage, and also
selfish and the dark side of human. It was a reminder to all
the human beings that no one is superior nor inferior in
front of death

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 3.2.4. What is the main stand of this movie in terms of introducing the
concept of climate change?
 The Film is all about taking care of our nature and
stopping it from being ruined by human beings. If we
didn’t care about how we have to respect our nature, the
movie gave us an idea in why we need to take care of our
environment.

STUDENT REFLECTION

1. What significant contribution can individuals make in response to climate change?

 Individual action onclimate change caninclude personal choices in
many areas, such as diet, means of long- and short-distance travel,
household energy use, consumption of goods and services, and
family size. Individuals can also engage in local and political
advocacy around issues of climate change.
2. Is climate change preventable?
 Basically, no. From all of what people are doing, climate change is
now really hard to prevent. The number of greenhouse gases
increases massively as time pass, so its just like waiting for a star to
fall.
3. What should be the significant contribution of the society as well as the government in
mitigating the hazards caused by climate change?
 Mitigation strategies include retrofitting buildings to make them
more energy efficient; adopting renewable energy sources like solar,
wind, and small hydro; helping cities develop more sustainable
transport such as bus rapid transit, electric vehicles, and biofuels;
and promoting more sustainable uses of land 
4. How will the sustainable development and solutions-oriented mindset help us to solve
the problems and challenges brought by climate change?
 The main challenges to sustainable development which are global in
character include poverty and exclusion, unemployment, climate
change, conflict and humanitarian aid, building peaceful and
inclusive societies, building strong institutions of governance, and
supporting the rule of law.

Here are four simple ways you can make your diet more climate-
friendly.

Eat more meat-free meals.

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 Buy organic and local whenever possible.

Don't waste food.

Grow your own.

5. Using the framework given below, what are the necessary skills you need to promote
sustainable development amidst of climate change? In no less than, 20 sentences,
justify your answer?
The day after Tomorrow is a film directed by Roland Emmerich, the movie is all
about a disaster that happened ten thousand years ago, the ice age. That can occur
again in the future predicted by Jack Hall, a climatologist. Unexpectedly this disaster
occurs early than expected that it wipes out thousands of lives because of lacks of
preparedness. Before the ice age occurs, there are several risks that happens in
different parts of the world, there is a shower of ice about a size of a brick in Japan, a
multiple tornado in Los Angeles, and a storm that causes flood and a big storm surge
that kills people. The risk that struck me the most is the big storm surge that spread
quickly and killed thousands of people in just seconds.
There are preventive measures that humans can do to prevent these disasters to
happen. First one is to avoid making pollution like air pollution (factories, cigarettes, and
Chlorofluorcarbon produced by aircons and refrigerator), water pollution (garbage, and
toxic chemical from sewage of factories), and noise pollution (human activities like using
car horn) that is very harmful to Earth. Second is to not to abuse Earth’s
Natural
treasures such as fossil fuels, trees, and animals. Lastly, we can do the 3R’s (reduce,
reuse, recycle) worldwide that can decrease the number of garbage throughout the
world. If I will be the president in the movie, I will listen to the prediction of Jack Hall and
gamble everything. I will command to evacuate the people from the south since it will not
be safe there in the next days. I will order the media to broadcast the things to do if the
ice age comes incase, they are not evacuated. I will do these things since it looks like
these are the only things that I can do to reduce the casualties. There is nothing wrong
to do things that can reduce casualties than doing nothing to reduce it.
The subject Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction, helps the students to know
and be prepared incase an emergency occurs. Since the subject prepares the students
to the disasters, it reduces casualty rate. The knowledge that the students acquire from
this subject can be also thought from their friends and family and in this case the
information is spreading and many people can be educated and prepared about
disasters
 it’s more the time to be asking how the ‘rhetoric’ can be lowered,
and not just a notch or two, but by an order of magnitude or two:
some people for example are openly calling for children to be
removed from their homes, supposedly because their parents hold
different opinions about things like ‘climate change’ and which

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 political parties to support…  this, abducting children, is freaky stuff…
and there’s lots more of this heinous thinking where this came from

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