In Roland Emmerich's 2009 disaster film "2012" the earth is sent into a geological and meteorological super-disaster based on the 2012 phenomenon and the myth of the Mayan calendar. This involves the shifting tectonics of the Earth's plates, the total collapse of Los Angeles, the destruction of famous monuments and floods around the world. Due to a stroke of luck, three huge arks were secretly built in China for 3 years under the jurisdiction of the highest powers in the world. After their "parody" of the biblical story of "Noah's Ark", two of every animal on earth were brought and packed into the arks for the coming heist and only a select group of the earth's elite were put on board; after surviving the final flood that marked the recovery of civilization, the arks headed towards Africa where the waters had begun to recede. But what happened after the ships receded into the horizon? How will life continue? What happened to all plant life? Where will the animals go? How will the animals survive and continue to move forward? Where will everyone go and how will civilization begin?AnimalsI noticed in the film that there were many clear comparisons to "Noah's Ark" where the world is ending with a great 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 ragtag team of survivors is crossing the Himalayan mountains, a group of helicopters fly overhead, each carrying an animal. Now, if the film goes all the way with its comparisons, combined with the limited amount of space for both people and animals, there will only have been enough room for two animals each. This is later confirmed in a later scene inside one of the ark's compartments where only two... paper halves... can be seen alive. While aquatic plants would most likely survive, terrestrial plants can die very quickly. Again, assuming the seeds survived, conditions would almost certainly not have been conducive to the regrowth of vegetation. The masses of silt and debris would have been quite uniform throughout the world: the flood was global, remember? - Yet different plants have adapted to different conditions and different types of soil. 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 only one species of plant working with one species of insect. While some plant species can pollinate and disperse seeds only with the wind, an environment reduced to a few individuals spread across the entire planet, in hostile conditions, is hardly conducive to this.