May 14 2008
An Inconvenient Truth…finally
So, I finally got around to watching An Inconvenient Truth. I’m not going to review it as such, because there are thousands of reviews, but I will give my quick impressions:
- He makes a compelling case with lot of interesting graphs and answers (in my mind) a lot of the questions that the “so-called skeptics” bring up all the time.
- Which makes the whole global warming thing very scary - I knew it was bad, but I don’t think I had a grasp on how bad it really is. The change is swift and dramatic over the past decade or so and
- I liked the point about how it’s a false assumption to say you have to choose between the economy and the environment - this is not a pie you have to divide up. Helping the environment can help the economy too.
- If Al Gore has been this passionate and this human during his Presidential race, we’d be looking at the end of the two term President Al Gore era. But the catch, of course, is that he’s probably done more to affect overall worldwide awareness than he could have done as President, where his attention would be required to be focused in so many different places and with a Congress working against him.
If you haven’t seen it, rent it and watch it. It’s an entertaining, interesting 90 minutes that’s not a waste of your time, and hopefully it’ll set some thought processes moving. More importantly, follow the advice of the movie. Little steps coming from everyone can make a big difference.
