anyfull.blogg.se

Antarctica has a crucial role to play in this debate. The narrator is alarmed by many unanswered questions about climate change like what if West Antarctic ice sheets melt entirely or if the Gulf Stream Ocean current will be disrupted or will the world come to end one day. The average global temperature is rising and the blanket of carbon dioxide around the world is increasing. Human beings are battling with each other for limited resources. The rapid increase in population has added to more distress. Humans have dominated the Earth by establishing cities and megacities, which have led to the encroachment of Mother Nature.

In this short span of time, humans have changed the face of the environment for worse. The narrator says that human beings have been on Earth for about 12000 years. The surreal twenty-four-hour summer lights and eerie silence often interrupted by the breaking sound of an iceberg was mind-boggling. Midges, mites, blue whales and limitless expanse of huge icebergs surrounded her with no existence of human life. The narrator stayed for two weeks in Antarctica, where 90% of the Earth’s total ice volumes are stored. It also enlightens about the significance of Cordilleran folds and pre-Cambrian granite shields ozone and carbon. With the extinction of dinosaurs, the landmass separated into different countries shaping into the globe that we know today.įrom the continent of Antarctica, we can get an understanding of the evolution of human existence on this planet and where the humans are heading now. The supercontinent of Gondwana existed for 500 million years and then the landmass broke. The climate was warm then and there was a huge variety of flora and fauna. There was no existence of humans on the planet at that time. The narrator says that six hundred and fifty million years ago, Antarctica was a part of a giant amalgamated Southern supercontinent called Gondwana. She felt relieved and wondered about the isolation of the continent and the historic time when India and Antarctica were a part of the same landmass. After travelling for a hundred hours, she finally reached the Antarctic continent. She crossed none time zones, six checkpoints, three oceans and many ecospheres to reach her destination. She commenced her journey 13.09 degrees north of the Equator in Madras. The narrator of Journey to the end of the earth heads towards Antarctica aboard ‘Akademik Shokalskiy’, a Russian research vessel with a group of students. The author too got a chance to work in the coldest atmosphere of the Antarctic continent.

Hence, Antarctica is the perfect place to study how little changes in the environment can have big consequences. They realize the threat of global warming is real.Īntarctica has a simple ecosystem. The programme has been a success because students can see the collapsing ice shelves and retreating glaciers with their own eyes. This will encourage them in developing new awareness and respect for our planet. Under this programme, high school students are taken on a trip to Antarctica and offer inspiring educational opportunities. Six years ago, Geoff Green, a Canadian, started the “Students on Ice” programme. Summary of the Chapter – Journey to the End of the Earth

She had a thrilling experience of the ice-mysteries of this ice-region.

She accompanied a team of students visiting the continent. The study of this region is useful to us because the world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica. Tishani Doshi holds the opinion that in order to understand the Earth’s present, past and future, one must go to Antarctica. The Journey to the end of the Earth from Vistas book for Class 12 is an enlightening account of the author’s visit to the coolest, windiest and driest continent in the world. She has travelled a lot and her most exciting journey was to Antarctica. She has been widely appreciated for her essays, poems and short stories. She has published some books of poetry and fiction. Tishani Doshi is a poet, journalist and dancer from India.