State of the Planet

The me first of all say that the movie 'Planet Earth' is amazing! From the one part that I saw. But I'm definitely gonna go buy that soon. I have a few questions about 'State of the Planet'. One of them my friend John brought up. It say's, "It will also tell her that the air- it's likely to say "the troposphere" -has trapped emissions from millions of cars..." He wondered why the troposphere had quotes around it. When someone usually say's something sarcastic or wants to point something out they use quotes, but I can't tell what the author is meaning here. It also say's, "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth." I wish I could explain what I'm thinking but I don't think I can. I think what it's saying is that when writing or reading poetry, you should be able to realize and appreciate the world. The earth should be apart of poetry maybe. Something very interesting I learned by reading this is that scientist can take a gene from a jellyfish (in this case luminescence which emits a green glow) and put it in a mice embryo and when their born, the mice will have this gene and when their put under a fluorescent light, the mouse's main organs, including skin, emit a green glow! I thought that was really cool. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0111_020111genmice.html. That is the website I went to if you want to know more.
Even though the author started talking about evolution a little, this one part I found quite amusing. He was talking about a single cell, being reproduced and becoming more evolved. "From there to eyes, ears, wings, hands, tongues, armadillos, piano tuners, military interrogation" Ha! Those are two random things...piano tuners and military interrogation. I don't know why but I thought that was funny.
But overall this was one of the more interesting poems I think. Probably because I could understand it more for one, but I also learned to appreciate the earth a little more, not that I haven't in the past. But just to think about what all God has created! It's awesome!