Tonight, after a hot day of shopping at IKEA and Target and all those other big-box stores, we went back to being Davisites, having a meal at Sudwerk and popping down to the small independent Varsity Movie Theater (check out my American spelling) on 2nd Street, to watch the Al Gore documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. Before I go on, I am telling you now, all of you, you must go and see this picture now. Right now. Watching Al Gore is a bit like the end of Bullseye, "let's have a look at what you could have won." Here is a man who is clearly intelligent and works tirelessly to get this issue to the forefront. You hear him speaking earnestly and you think of King George's smirk and chuckle and you get both sad and angry that when we reached the crotch in the trousers of time back in November 2000, the reality in which Gore was President went down one leg while we went down the other, the leg with the dripping willy, pissing all over us and everyone else. So it was refreshing to have this guy back, and pushing the point home that global warming is an immediate threat to everybody. The melting of the polar ice-caps and the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, it is happening right now, and the evidence is everywhere. The population of the planet is exploding and yet if sea levels rise there will be less land for them to live on, and with the increased heat there will be less usable water and usable land to grow any food. The scientific community - the people who actually do the research, not the talk-show hosts, media-hacks and political soundbiters - are in unanimous agreement that global warming is FACT, yet people here still do not entirely believe it. There is a policy here, promoted by the people in charge, to debunk it as simple unproven theory, while in the meantime sea temperatures rise causing storms to get worse and cities such as New Orleans to get destroyed. Gore demonstrated the evidence that this is not merely cyclical, and that the enormous human population of the planet with its massive emission of Carbon Dioxide has had an effect on the planet's climate. He asks us to ask ourselves, what will happen to the planet in the very near future? What will happen to our societies, which can barely handle the refugee situations we have now, let alone if every low-lying city in the world (Beijing, London, Calcutta, all of Holland) were deluged? Bye-bye, mate, goodnight Kyoto. Gore blimey, guv! But An Inconvenient Truth does not make you leave the cinema wanting to join the doomsday cults just yet, for there is hope, and there is still time for us to change the way we treat this planet of ours, the only one we have. I won't tell you what he said though, because I don't want to spoil the end of the film for you.
a global warning
16.7.06 09:23
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Adrian (19.7.06 13:57) Does George Bush turn up to debunk it all as unproven hypothesis, have a fight with George W Bush, reveal to him that he's his father - it's possible that George W hasn't worked it out yet & thinks that he was twice elected president on merit - & cut off his son's hand? |
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petescully / Website (19.7.06 16:23) Well, at least the Galactic Empire were honest about destroying planets, I mean Global Warming or the Death Star, David it's over to you.
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