Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
For someone who works in the gas and oil industry, Al Gore’s film, which centres on explaining to the masses why climate change is affecting all of us, is a tough pill to swallow. And not just because it makes us all feel guilty; there’s a lot of truth in this film which makes it very hard to see the positives of mining for any raw material.
Truth, however, is what I needed when I watched this film. I would be the first to admit that at the time this film came out I wasn’t exactly an expert on greenhouse gases and related issues. Actually, to be honest I had no real idea that the glaciers were melting at any rapid rate. What this film did was give me facts which a lot of our community have been ignoring for a very long time. That might have been the case in the past, but we’re starting to wake up now. And it’s about time…
none of us will be alive to see the problems of the future. So it’s easy to push them to the back of our minds
The world is getting smaller, if you like. The glaciers are shrinking, rapidly, and massive lakes are drying up. Worse, the stuff we are pumping up into the atmosphere is not exiting the atmosphere and heading into outer Space…it’s remaining inside our bubble and insulating us in a way which is making everything heat up. It’s only a fraction of an increase in temperature every year but don’t let the numbers fool you: it is slowly having an enormous impact on the way we live our lives.
What I gleaned from this film, if you like, is two things: 1) we have to find a new resource other than oil and 2) although it can’t happen immediately – that’d be suicide – it has to happen in the next 50 to 100 years.
There’s your biggest issue, of course: none of us will be alive to see the problems of the future. So it’s easy to push them to the back of our minds and get on thinking about Casual Fabrics and what DVD we are going to watch this evening.
Here’s the point: this film isn’t saying any one group is worse than any other. What it’s really doing is highlighting what we must do and how we need to act together to change things. It’s time we all got on the same page, or, to begin with, started just reading from the same library, you know?
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