Sunday, June 11, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
Since I'll be gone to Las Vegas on Father's Day, we went to see a movie of my choice today, An Inconvenient Truth. Highly recommended especially for those readers living only a few feet above sea level. Keith, if you liked that Vanity Fair article on Gore, this is really a movie version of the global warming presentation he has been going around the world doing for years, with some personal stuff thrown in. I heard on the radio the other day about a study on people's reaction to potentially catastrophic events. They studied people downstream from a large dam which was known to be in danger of collapsing. A long way downstream, but still in the path of destruction, people were very concerned, and the concern level went up as you got nearer... until you got very close to the dam itself. At that point, the concern level dropped off. Says something about human nature, I suppose, speaking as a person whose house is only a few miles away from the San Andreas fault.
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I am looking forward to seeing this documentary and continuing my ecological education. I was also considering reading Gore's book but felt it is probably outdated now. I think it was published several years ago, right after he invented the internet if I'm not mistaken. All kidding aside I have come to think highly of Gore's dedication to save our planet and want to hear anything he has to offer on the subject.
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