Sunday, June 04, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth is a "must see" movie

This is a very compelling movie with the caveat that, if you don't like Al Gore this'll be a little challenging, but I encourage you to overcome this feeling though, and I do sincerely hope that you'll make a point to watch it as soon as possible. EVERY unbiased scientific data is pointing to the same direction... The large fraction of the US mass media that question the findings have ties with the current government, the Oil industry (sorry, repetition)or GM. It IS a scary movie and even though our brains cannot completely fathom the consequences that are implied here and some consequences that are suggested might not come to pass, it is no reason to close our eyes and ears while humming some primal sounds in order not to be distracted from our current state of denial. I thought I had a pretty good knowledge on the subject, but I didn't realize how much more serious it has become in such a SHORT time. Another point showing that everything is connected, Jacques Cousteau before his death said that the major issue for the future of human race will be overpopulation. It took 1 million some years to see 2,000,000,000 people living on earth at the same time and only ONE life time to increase that number by 6,000,000,000 more. Almost everywhere else in the world (the US Government - many states and cities in the US are doing something - and Australia are the only 2 major exceptions among the richest nations), everybody, even governments, are talking in urgent terms about global climate changes and its dire consequences, putting new policies in place and watching people starting to modify their old habits. Hopefully it'll come to our country too and not too soon. Earth is big but its atmosphere is VERY thin and fragile and human activities ARE impacting significantly the composition of this thin lifesaving layer. Imagine your children and your children's children asking in 20, 30 or 50 years: What have they done while we still had a chance? Joe

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