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    The document provides a reflection on the 2017 film "Geostorm". It summarizes the film's premise that humanity has gained the ability to control Earth's weather and climate on a global scale. While the intentions of preventing natural disasters are noble, the risks of system malfunctions or weaponization of weather by superpowers must be considered. In reality, some limited control like cloud seeding has been achieved, but controlling the vast interconnected atmosphere globally seems impossible and dangerous. The film accurately portrays the problem of climate change but suggests humanity should find greener solutions to avoid global catastrophe without resorting to dangerous geoengineering theories like those in "Geostorm".

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    The document provides a reflection on the 2017 film "Geostorm". It summarizes the film's premise that humanity has gained the ability to control Earth's weather and climate on a global scale. While the intentions of preventing natural disasters are noble, the risks of system malfunctions or weaponization of weather by superpowers must be considered. In reality, some limited control like cloud seeding has been achieved, but controlling the vast interconnected atmosphere globally seems impossible and dangerous. The film accurately portrays the problem of climate change but suggests humanity should find greener solutions to avoid global catastrophe without resorting to dangerous geoengineering theories like those in "Geostorm".

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    The document provides a reflection on the 2017 film "Geostorm". It summarizes the film's premise that humanity has gained the ability to control Earth's weather and climate on a global scale. While the intentions of preventing natural disasters are noble, the risks of system malfunctions or weaponization of weather by superpowers must be considered. In reality, some limited control like cloud seeding has been achieved, but controlling the vast interconnected atmosphere globally seems impossible and dangerous. The film accurately portrays the problem of climate change but suggests humanity should find greener solutions to avoid global catastrophe without resorting to dangerous geoengineering theories like those in "Geostorm".

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    The document provides a reflection on the 2017 film "Geostorm". It summarizes the film's premise that humanity has gained the ability to control Earth's weather and climate on a global scale. While the intentions of preventing natural disasters are noble, the risks of system malfunctions or weaponization of weather by superpowers must be considered. In reality, some limited control like cloud seeding has been achieved, but controlling the vast interconnected atmosphere globally seems impossible and dangerous. The film accurately portrays the problem of climate change but suggests humanity should find greener solutions to avoid global catastrophe without resorting to dangerous geoengineering theories like those in "Geostorm".

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    MONTERO, ROGESSA FAITH B.

    11 – ROGER

    REFLECTION ON THE FILM ‘GEOSTORM’

    Modern day technology enables mankind to foresee or predict the occurrence of


    natural disasters thanks to the system of satellites orbiting the Earth from space. Weather
    systems and its causes and effects are being monitored by scientists around the globe to
    assess the possible impact of such phenomenon to our planet and even ascertaining the
    when and where aspects with accuracy. As such, we are able to prevent or at least
    mitigate the effects of such catastrophic happening.

    But having some sort of clairvoyance and seeing into the future is one thing and
    being able to completely control the events about to unfold is another. This is the plot for
    the 2017 movie the Geostorm. The premise for this movie is that the human race is finally
    able to control the weather and climate of the Earth as we know it. The complexity of this
    premise is not unclear to notice at the onset, and one will have immediate idea that this
    kind of intervention by mankind is a bad one.

    For what reasons should the ‘geoengineering’ of weather might be considered as


    a good idea? Well, according to the film, it is to prevent natural disasters from happening
    on a global scale. While the intentions are noble, the other side of the coin must still be
    looked into particularly the risks of malfunction in the system or worse the
    weaponization of climate and weather by the world’s super powers. These possibilities
    are to be assessed whether the risks involved are less considerable than the end sought
    to be attained.

    Human intervention with weather and climate is not new and in reality, we have
    developed certain ways how can we control the weather. Basic example is the artificial
    rains as a measure of addressing the irrigation needs of agricultural area through cloud
    seedling which ultimately produces the rain showers precariously needed in times of
    drought.

    But to bring this mechanism into a global scale seemed to be impossible and
    dangerous at best. The impossibility of controlling the atmosphere is visible from the plot
    of the film. The Earth’s atmosphere is a vast yet connected thing where the causing of
    some disturbance in one location will have a chain of effects on other areas of the
    atmosphere. Not to mention the enormous amount of data and resources needed to fully
    carry out this attempt is something that was not seen before.

    However, the film is actually accurate in identifying the problem that


    ‘geoengineering’ of weather intends to address, which is the climate change. The heat
    levels of the planet are rising in a very alarming rate. The ice glaciers of the north and
    south poles were melting resulting to the increase of the already high sea levels, the
    carbon dioxide emission continue to hurt the Earth’s atmosphere thereby putting at risk
    every living thing on the planet to harmful solar rays, and the overall threat that it projects
    to livable condition to our planet.

    As such, it is imperative for us to respond to this apocalyptic menace to ensure


    that the future generations will still have a place they could call home. Initiatives on a
    greener way of living is something that we, as individuals, are capable of so as not to add
    to the world’s suffering. This film imparts to us a realization that if the time comes, and
    God forbid it does, may the humanity overcome the global apocalypse without the need
    to resort in applying the theory of ‘Geostorm’.

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