I finally went to see Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" last night, and it's really one of those must-see movies because it's quite an eye-opener. There aren't many things that stress the urgency of turning around our climate crisis as much as seeing a piece of ice the size of Rhode Island break away from Antarctica over the course of days. The documentary does an excellent job in breaking down the scepticism that is surrounding global warming, it emphasizes that there is scientific consensus and that global warming isn't just some theory. The idea that there is doubt over the veracity of global warming is being spoonfed to us through the political and economic propaganda machine. The main idea to take away from the movie, is to talk about global warming, help dispelling the myth of it being a theory as opposed to fact, and change. Make small changes to how you live, and encourage others to do the same.
On the way back home I had a lengthy discussion with my dad and grandfather over how nothing would really change unless everyone participated and it was hard to explain them the irony of saying: "Well this won't work unless everyone changes, so I'm not changing". In the end though I managed to explain how the upward trend in global warming can not, in fact, be turned into a downward trend overnight, but that it would be a huge step forward if only we managed to slow it down, then let it stagnate, and then finally, let it diminish. I still think Al Gore said it better, and certainly more terse, when he said that some people go from denial to despair, without considering the steps in between. Despair will promote our inaction, and it doesn't seem like we have alot of time left for that. If you want to do something right now, the climatecrisis.com website has a nice pdf with 10 easy tips to pollute less.
Ironically and sadly, the only people that walked out during this movie were a bunch of teenagers.
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I didn't have to witness the indignity of anyone walking out of this great movie, but that was only because when it played for exactly one week in my little corner of the world this summer, I was the only person there. ... What most impressed me about this important movie was how charming and often funny Mr. Gore was as he was scaring us to death
There is a theater closer to me then the one I went to that only played the movie for a single week as well. It is sad indeed that movies about this topic get so very little attention in small towns.
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