In Roland Emmerich's 2009 disaster film, "2012", the Earth is sent into a geological and meteorological super-catastrophe based on the 2012 phenomenon and the myth of the Mayan calendar. It involves a shift in the Earth's plate tectonics, the total collapse of Los Angeles, the destruction of famous landmarks, and global flooding. Through a stroke of luck, three massive arches were secretly built in China over 3 years under the jurisdiction of the world's highest powers. After their "parody" of the biblical story of "Noah's Ark", two of all the animals on the planet were brought and stored in the arks in preparation for the impending blow and only a select group of the "elite » terrestrial was boarded; After surviving the final flood which marked the restart of civilization, the arks headed towards Africa where the waters had begun to recede. But what happened once the ships sailed towards the horizon? How will life continue? What happened to all plant life? Where will the animals go? How will animals survive and continue to live? Where will everyone go and how will civilization develop? Animals I noticed in the film that there were many clear comparisons to "Noah's Ark" in which the world ends with a big flood and the last vestiges of humanity are saved by giant boats. . In one of the scenes at the end of the film, as our motley crew of survivors crosses the Himalayan mountains, a group of helicopters fly overhead, each carrying an animal. Now if the movie makes full comparisons, combined with the limited space for people and animals, there will only be enough space for two animals each. This is later confirmed in a later scene inside one of the ark's holds where you can only see two...... middle of paper...... ived. Although aquatic plants would most likely survive, land plants can die very quickly. Even then, assuming the seeds had survived, conditions would certainly not have been suitable for vegetation to regrow. The masses of silt and debris would have been fairly uniform across the world – the flood was global, remember? - Yet different plants have adapted to different conditions and different soil types. To reproduce and spread, many plants require a symbiotic relationship with animals or insects for pollination and seed dispersal. Often this can be remarkably specific, with a single plant species working with a single insect species. If certain plant species can pollinate and disperse their seeds with nothing but the wind, an environment reduced to only a few individuals distributed across the entire planet, in hostile conditions, is hardly conducive to this...