Confronting Global Warming - Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth

*An Inconvenient Truth is a new kind of movie*. It's not entertaining, if anything, it's frightening, there's no satire or climax and it doesn't have a happy ending. Well, that's not true...it could have a happy ending, Al Gore says it's up to us. You see, the movie doesn't actually have an ending because it's a story about the world. *And has the world come to an end yet?* _Obviously not._ In fact, you may even leave the theater thinking that Gore's political career also has not yet reached its end. *_Al Gore taught me how to recycle!_* I am from that generation, that were taught in elementary school to "Save the Planet" and recycle everything. We wore recycling sign T-shirts and our nightmares were all about ducks choking on plastic six-pack ties. *But somehow recycling turned into a fad just as fast as slap bracelets, and An Inconvenient Truth is bringing back the trend.*

It turned out to be a great film. Well, it's really more of a powerpoint presentation that Gore gives to you. *He breaks down three common misconceptions about global warming.*

Global Warming Misconceptions

1. *Scientists disagree* - Apparently they don't. All scientists see global warming as a threat to the humankind. 2. *We have to choose earth over economy* - We don't. We just have to make some minor adjustments to the way we live. This is also one of the funniest parts _(and scariest)_ of the movie. Gore says, _"What if we do choose the economy over the earth?"_ As if to say, Duh. We can't do that. Then there'd be no earth and...well...that's kinda major." 3. *Global Warming is too big of a problem*, nothing we can do. - It's not too late. But it's getting close. Gore also says that Americans tend to go from denial to despair...skipping the part where you _actually do something_. The movie does have humorous punctuations - just enough to remind you that you paid to see a movie, not a lecture. But parts of it still feel like you should have your laptop out. *Will there be a quiz on this?* Well, yes. There will. In 2008. Only Al Gore isn't calling it a quiz, he's calling it an election. You see, Gore does cede to the fact that the only way to change the problem is through political action. And this _is_ a political movie. It's not a movie about Al Gore's politics, it's about pro-environment politics. And Gore's politics just happen to be pro-environment. Basically, what you learn from the movie is that to stop global warming...there has to be a movement. *The science is shocking -- caring about the environment needs to come back in style.* And we have to do it together. If you could do it by yourself, Al Gore would have done it already. delicious | digg | technorati
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