After watching Avatar 2, I have been considering the themes of nature and science that the film presents. This film is not only an artistic enjoyment, but also an educational film. I especially like the ingredients in it about nature. The world of Avatari is like the earth’s once – how great nature was back then, and people there were born in nature and at one with nature. And our today, how small nature is, the environment always has to give way to economic and scientific development. But paradoxically, science must develop. Avatar is such a story: if it does not develop, no matter how beautiful the environment is, it will be colonized by humans and taken away by humans with high technology. Even on Earth and without threat of invaders, who will want to return to the era of nakedness, drilling wood for fire, and drinking blood?

Most of the science I learn every day is contrary to nature. Physics strives to do nuclear fusion, to make all kinds of particles that do not exist much on the earth (maybe in space); Chemistry is making new materials, synthesizing various macromolecules that do not exist in the world; biology toss genetically modified magical creatures all day long, and developing various drugs in the direction of “immortality”. How great nature was, until humans discovered science – Ah! It turns out that nature is not a myth, and it turns out that nature is a product of science! Since then, myths have become untenable, and science has constantly defyed the limits set by various myths and surpassed the impossible. Avatar 2 is full of beautiful rituals and myths, while science is like a cold world. Should science be used to debunk these stories and fantasies?

The era when people stopped sharing emotions with animals (according to history, the era when “animal worship” stopped) was also the era when human civilization began to flourish. Today, biology students have caused more or less the suffering of various laboratory animals. Looking at the research paper, we were surprised, initially, to find that mice have feelings, and then we found that reptiles (turtles) also have feelings, and the most unthinkable thing is that the study of emotions has been extended to fish and even fruit flies. The other day I saw a large group of animal protectionists in front of the museum, holding signs and shouting very affectionately a declaration to stop using all experimental animals. I sympathise with them too, but here is the paradox: without laboratory animals, biology is difficult to develop, let alone medical research to treat diseases like cancer. In the past, I thought that studying biology is studying nature. But the reality is that unless you do ecology, biology is even more contrary to nature than other disciplines. Who thinks about nature when tinkering with those bacteria and viruses and adding all kinds of “exciting features” to them?

The Avatar 2 movie do have raised interesting questions, and it is difficult to have a clear answer. After all, science is a road of no return, and if you embark on it, you can only go on, and there is no room for turning back.