Name: さんみん_B3L6_読解 (SanMing_B3L6_Reading)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:12:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

基礎受動態

The animation Farewell, created by a Taiwanese student, Chu-Ling Hsu, was awarded a Special   Mention at the International Festival of Animated Films AniFest in 2009.

程度の副詞

This short film features the very last polar bear on Earth   saying farewell on a melting iceberg before it drowns.

過去完了形

Hsu indicated that global warming had become quite serious.

She hoped that her film could help focus public attention on environmental protection.

Just as this animated film shows, polar bears are at risk of extinction.

They not only have been over-hunted and badly affected by water and air   pollution, but now are also being threatened by global warming.

Because of global warming, a large amount of Arctic ice is   melting away, and the northern seal population is falling.

Polar bears are thus rapidly decreasing in number since they have fewer   places to live in and less food to eat.

So fast are they dying that they could disappear forever within decades.

Actually, polar bears are not the only victims of global   warming since it is a worldwide problem.

Compared to other natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons, global   warming affects our planet at a rather gradual pace.

Slow as it is, global warming may eventually destroy our planet.

This deadly warming is caused by the huge amounts of carbon dioxide   discharged into the atmosphere by the burning of fuels.

This carbon dioxide absorbs the sun’s heat and keeps it   from escaping into space, thus warming the Earth.

As the planet warms up, tons of ice surrounding the North Pole and the   South Pole have begun to melt, causing worldwide sea level to rise.

Small islands and low coastal areas could soon be underwater, and residents of several big cities such as London,   Shanghai, and Taipei are likely to have nowhere to live by the end of the 21st century

Global warming can also cause severe climate change and   kill thousands of people at a time.

Many probably still remember how Hurricane Katrina in 2005   left tens of thousands of Americans homeless.

Back in 2003, more than thirty thousand people lost their   lives when a heat wave struck Europe.

And now, more and more land that was once fertile has become   barren, since the deserts near the equator are expanding.

Because of global warming, humans might soon face famine,   just as many polar bears have already experienced.

When polar bears are starving due to a lack of food, it   is said that they will kill and eat each other.

If we want to save them, both people and governments should take immediate   action to deal with global warming before it is too late.

We need to seize every opportunity to reduce global warming, or food shortages are   just one of the great tragedies that we will experience one day.

By then, it might just be our turn to say farewell to our Earth.