TOEFL Practice 2

So. Yesterday it was impossible to study. However, my life this days is mainly in English, so I take that as an indirect practice for the TOEFL test.

We watched the documentary HOME (2009). I will link the complete English version here for the ones that get encourage to watch it after reading. It is totally worth to spend one or two hours analyzing and enjoying this movie. The photo is beautiful and the message is simple: “change or die”.

The amazing landscapes and the slow narrations makes you feel like in an amazing brainwash session. And yes, it can be that you take the message as a brainwash, but who cares, true or not, global warming or not, Earth is changing, is getting rid of us, and that matters.

So yes, the message is to prove how global warming is accelerating the clock and how climate change will challenge us.

The participants at IICD took it very positive, even the religious ones didn’t complain. They even decided to take a one month initiative, some will quit plastic bags, some will quit car to go to town, some will take shorter showers and I will not eat beef that is not grass feed, organic and grown in less than 100 miles around home.

Did you know coal, gas, oil comes from the accumulated energy that the trees had store underground? Yes, the trees take the energy of the sun and store part of that energy, the part they don’t use to grow. That ancient storage is what we suck out of Gaia to create our society the way we know it today. So look around and realize that everything you see is made of sunlight.

Enjoy the show.

http://youtu.be/jqxENMKaeCU