Journey To The End of The Earth
Journey To The End of The Earth
Journey To The End of The Earth
TISHANI DOSHI
Journey begins:
1.The author started her journey in Russian research
vessel, Akademik Shokalskiy bound for Antarctica.
2.Her journey began 13.09 degrees North of the equator
in Madras.
3.The geographical frontiers she crossed were nine time
zones, six checkpoints, three bodies of water and
innumerable ecospheres.
4. She travelled over 100 hours in combination of car,
aeroplane and ship before she set foot on the Antarctic
Continent.
1.Burgeoning population
2. Catalogued and uncatalogued species are battling for
limited resources.
3.Unmitigated burning of fossil fuels has now created a
blanket of CO2 around the world, which is slowly but
steadily increasing average global temperature.
4.Climate change is another aspect to worry.
Geoff Green:
He is an educator, social entrepreneur and a global
leader in polar education and youth engagement. He is
the founder and President of the Award winning
programme that has taken more than 2500 youth,
educators and scientists around the world on
educational journeys to the Arctic and Antarctica. He has
accomplished over 120 expeditions in a span of 23
years. Globe and Mail called Geoff, “ The man who
revolutionized polar and environmental education.
Geoff Green realised that there was no point in
organising an expedition for the celebrities because they
would not go an extra mile to contribute for
environmental enrichment. The expedition would only
remain a pleasure trip for them.
Necessity of Phytoplanktons:
Take care of small things and the big things will take
care of themselves:
1.This maxim advances a warning to mankind to
maintain ecological balance.
2.It also petitions humanity to pledge allegiance to the
precept of peaceful coexistence.
3.Miniscule alterations in environment can lead to
catastrophic consequences.
4.Phytoplanktons which nourish and sustain the entire
Southern Ocean’s food chain, use solar energy and
assimilate carbon.
5.Further depletion of ozone layer can vastly affect the
activities of Phytoplankton.
6.Since Phytoplankton are the primary producers of the
ocean and the base of food chain, a minute disturbance
might create havoc in marine ecosystem.
7. It cannot be negated that the entire global Carbon
cycle will collapse.
8.With deforestation, different kind of rare species are
on the threshold of extinction and ecological balance is
under a turmoil.
9.The danger of global warming starts from small things
like burning fossil fuels.
LATQ’s
1.Justify the title.
2.Antarctica seems distant and cut off. How does the
writer underline this fact?
3.How has man decimated the ecological health of our
planet?
4.Antarctica is a perfect place to study the repercussion
of environment and is also the last bastion of nature.
Elaborate.
5.Explain the parable of the Phytoplankton.
6.Delineate Tishani Doshi’s epiphanies.
7.Geoff Green’s initiative is commendable. Validate.