Hello, I am jielei mei in ENG101. In this assignment, I am
responding for an assignment, which asks me to watch the film Hurricane Katrina: The Drive: New Orleans
Lower 9th Ward and discuss the connections between it and our course
discussions. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss what happens in the
film and how is connected to climate change and climate debt of our course
discussions.
From the film Hurricane
Katrina, we can see how climate change affects the United State and what
the United State owns Lower 9th Ward. Hurricane Katrina hit New
Orleans City of United State in Aug 29th, 2005.Lower 9th
Ward is one of the communities of New Orleans, which is near the Mississippi
River. Lower 9th Ward suffered serious flooding during Hurricane
Katrina because of the rising water. According to the film Hurricane Katrina, “the rising water turned the contents of the
homes upside down” (TRyanNovac). The rising water destroyed the homes severe. There
are a few ways to interpret this. New Orleans is near the Mississippi River. As
the water level rising, it is easy to suffer flooding and the homes were
destroyed seriously. On one hand, this is the problem of climate change. It is
connected to our textbook the Global
Warming Reader. Flooding is a phenomenon of climate change, which is mainly
caused by global warming. In James Hansen’s article Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near, he wrote
that “global warming initiated sea-ice melt, exposing darker ocean that absorbs
more sunlight, melting more ice” (277). As the oceans’ temperature becomes
higher, more glaciers will melt into water gradually. As a result, the water
level will rise. It leads to flooding. Therefore, climate change makes United
State suffer the threat of flooding.
The United State government didn’t do enough to control the
global warming so that they suffered serious threat during Hurricane Katrina. On
the other hand, the United State government owns the Lower 9th Ward
residents “climate debt”. As the economy of United State develops, the industrials
produce more and more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. It makes the global
warming increase rapidly and the process of climate change speeds up. However,
the government didn’t carry out enough measurement to deal with it. It leads to
climate change threaten the Lower 9th Ward heavily. So it is the
government owned the residents of Lower 9th Ward “climate debt”. It
is connected to the developed countries own the developing countries climate
debt because the developed countries produce more greenhouse gas and lead to
the climate crisis due to the development of economy.
Therefore, what happens in the film is connected to the
climate change and climate debt in our course discussions.
bibliography
Hurricane Katrina. TRyanNovac, 16 July, 2006. YouTube. Web. 8 December, 2012.
Hansen, James. "Global Warming Twenty Years Later." The Global Warming Reader. United State:Penguin Group, 2012.277.Print.
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