Earth 2100, By Ned Neufeld

There are eight planets in our solar system, and only one can sustain life, Earth. The documentary film “Earth 2100" written by Ned Neufeld demonstrates, portrays, and illustrates the drastic impact that human adaptability is having on the planet, and how we’re destroying our future of our next generation. The author focuses on the behavior patterns that will ultimately result in the demise of civilizations. The author includes the following rhetorical modes narration, description, and cause and effect to present the probabilities of what might become of the earth if don’t wake up and smell the coffee. Ned uses Lucy, a fictional character to infer what might be the colossal result of ignoring, and disregarding small changes within the environment.

The writer of the film implores narration in the film to create swift and effective transitions between events happening within Lucy life, and how it correlates to daily life of an average American family within a century time frame.

In the beginning of the movie they included a flashback of what seemed to be the end of the human race, where all hope was lost. During the entire viewing the narrator emphasized a disclaimer the fictional world of Lucy is “what might happen” (1.14 Earth 2100). This is an effective word choice to motivate the audience to take action in order to prevent this dreadful future. “Our whole way of life had crumbled” throughout the film he gives detailed account, and crucial turning points that accelerates and shapes the disastrous world of 2100(1.09.50 Earth 2100). They then back it up with a recall of an events that actually happened to show that this is a possibility. The events that were predicted are animal extinction, water level rising up to seven feet, and disease mutations. Through Lucy eyes and narration, he gave us a front roll seat into possible

future.
“Last Vegas was a strange sight. Most of the hotels dark. And all those neon lights gone dead. Sin city pretty much folded, this is a great example of how the writer elaborates description intertwines with a vivid picture of the current stance of world in the year of 2050(37.40 Earth 2100) The description of the story is pivotal to transgression of fictional life of Lucy. A perfect example would be how the host complimented the somber description of the” leading minds” predictions. The graphic imagines of mass famine where the world is reduced to total poverty, where their most valuable possession were meaningless “The United States is fragmented into millions of chards” (1.10.16 Earth 2100). This resulted in an economic shutdown. Every highway system, gas station, internet connection, and even the government were inexistence in the film. The writer showed the planet on its last leg. The tale is clouded with constant fear, but the utmost idea is that there is a glimmer of hope looming over the days to come despite the fact that the mayhem created is irreversible.
The motion pictured uncovered the “elephant in the room” which many people were in denial was actually occurring.

It revealed the process, and the many different causes that would sooner, or later would arises similar affairs, which is dooms day. The producer method of presenting the root of all evil is that society relies on means that are more convenient, and cheaper lifestyles. In the beginning of the educational film they showed us a Cuban dragon fly during summer in Miami; then they gave us the cause to why the animal migration pattern change which is due to climate changes. They introduced the immense effects of human conduct has on earth, then back tracked to the cause followed by the smaller

effects.
In conclusion the producers focus was to demonstrate the causes, and what the end of the world would resemble if we continue of the detrimental path. They achieved this goal by utilizing rhetorical modes like narration through the eye of Lucy, description of what “might happen”, and the cause and effects of the apocalypse.