An Inconvenient Truth

[desoto_hia873]

I asked for Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth for Christmas, but no one gave it to me. So I bought it for myself and watched it tonight.

Wow.

We are so doomed. We're living on Easter Island and cutting down our last trees to make big heads, and no one's asking, "Wait. Is this really a good idea?" Well, no one except Al Gore, perhaps.

Go, see it for yourself. If you look, you can find it on bit torrent sites. Somehow, I don't think he'd mind if you watched it that way.

And then imagine what the world might be like now if he'd won that damn election.


ETA: If you're looking for similar material to read, try A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright. It's not just about global warming--it's about how civilizations do themselves in time after time.

Comments

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

It is a real eye-opener for those who don't know, or are in denial about global warming. I went back to school this year for Environmental Science, and we even have people in our classes who don't really GET IT.

And on CNN the other day they were taking about the ice shelf off Elsmere Island that went a few months ago, and the announcer actually said that this shelf going "Might mean that this global warming thing is actually real"...I almost DIED!

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

I should have been more up on the topic than I was--I have lots of background in environmental science, but have paid more attention to pesticides and various other pollutants and collapsing cod stocks in the last few years. I feel like a bit of a schmo now. I have a PhD in atmospheric science, ferhevvinssakes!

There are just TOO MANY environmental crises!

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

I started off in a double major Physics and Atmospheric science... then I burnt out in year 3, LOL!

The movie opened my eyes to a few things, because I have been watching the changes in mammal populations and behaviour as a result of the changes North of the 60, and I really should be reading more on ice core samples. There is so much to know, and so little time left.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Hey, my undergrad was in physics! ::Twilight Zone music:: I felt pretty burnt out by the end of it, too.

What kind of environmental science are you studying?

[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

Currently it is just a general first year core in Enviromental Science at York U., but I am transfering to Concordia for next year and will be specilizing in the Ecology stream (they also give the option of a Geoscience, and a Hydrosphere stream).