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

[mbangel10.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it yet, but I will soon. Also, I voted for Gore and every time that GB does something that ticks me off (which is most every day) I think about what it would have been like if Gore won and I swear it would've definitely been better than this. Sigh.....

[yourlibrarian]

Over the Christmas holiday two of my relatives were discussing how they thought the whole global warming issue was a crock. I could only listen and think "Yep, we're all going to die off thanks to folks like you." But that might have been a bit of a conversation stopper.

[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!

[st_salieri.livejournal.com]

This is exactly why I can't bring myself to watch it - because I know it will depress the hell out of me. I love me some Gore, but...I can't watch! I'm such a wuss. This kind of stuff just leaves me so upset.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the fact that the Brazilian rainforest is going away at a rate that will destroy water, air and many other resources all of us depend on. And, of course, nobody in the area gives a damn.
"sigh"

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

no one's asking, "Wait. Is this really a good idea?"

...

I'm no-one. Who are you?

[ezagaaikwe.livejournal.com]

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

Gore did win the election, and so did Kerry. Chimp is nothing but an illegal occupant of our highest office.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I need only to go outside to our lovely January spring weather. Supposed to snow tonight for the first time (I'll believe it when I see it) but be up to 8 again by the end of the week.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I have to be honest with you... I have no hope. At least I don't have children, so I don't have to agonize over their fates.

And things are at a fine pass when that's the only positive aspect to a situation.