documentary. The narrator, Richard Kiley, progressed through many points about our

precious earth including her beginnings, her slow deterioration by man as well as other

factors, and theories as to her what could be her end.

The beginning images of earth, approximately four million years ago, can be

described a barren yet fertile land with the prospect for life to flourish. Prehistoric

volcanoes exploded with gases and lava, that created the crust of our land. Eventually

the gases cooled and it began to rain, eventually forming the oceans that is the birthplace

of life. Biologist Prof. Deemer believes that seashores are the cradles of life that led to

the evolution of organisms on to the land. In his experiment, he placed lipid molecules

in a pool of water. He observed that when lipids come into contact with water their

outside walls harden and form mobile structures. Found in Australia were rocks about a

billion years older than previously bel

become eerie twilight and warmth would slowly fall to freezing temperatures. Snow and

nuclear testing and won the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

wide, that are still visible today. Forty-seven islands diminished to forty-five. Now thirty

an ingenious creature. It creates its own weather system. It rains quite frequently their

micron-sized films and tiny bacteria whose ancestors are alive today. In coastal waters

ieved, 3.5 billion years. In the rocks were found

the earth will become the barren wasteland that it began as. And to think that life that

Too many factors are eating away at our earth's fragile ecosystem. Once again

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South America, Nuclear Winter, Richard Kiley, Found Australia, Operation Ivy, Prof Deemer, Jim Lovelock, Island Atolls, Ban Treaty, Fate Earth, rain forests, hydrogen bombs,
Approximate Word count = 713
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)