June 03, 2006
Al Gore saving the environment one movie critic at a time
I get a hearty chuckle out of Al Gore's new movie "An Inconvenient Truth", especially when you consider his token efforts to help address the issue while he was Vice President. A time when global warming was just as much a issue as it is now. The global warming hysteria was not discovered on Bush's watch, it was with us at the height of Gore's influence and he stood by and did nothing. Well now we are told we have ten years before we are doomed.
If we do nothing, in about 10 years the planet may reach a "tipping point" and begin a slide toward destruction of our civilization and most of the other species on this planet.Face the facts everyone. If this is true we are all dead because NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is going to stop the current trends outside a mass die off of mankind, a major technological breakthrough or a massive move to nuclear power. Why you ask? Because mankind as a whole is weak and lacks the will to give up it's easy options. You will never get people to accept austerity measures until they are in a life and death struggle for existance. If you try to force it on them they will lie and cheat their way around it. The NIMBY reflex is so pervasive we can't even get current leadership like Ted Kennedy to accept a wind farm that produces clean power built where it might impact his view while going boating, so how does anyone expect real progress on protecting the environment. And lets not even start on how hard it is to build nuclear power plants in the United States. One day counties in the oil rich middle east will be generating more nuclear energy then the US at the current rate of growth assuming they don't go on a bomb building spree first and kill us all.
But hope is not lost.
I did a funny thing when I came home after seeing "An Inconvenient Truth." I went around the house turning off the lights.Al Gore may save the world by convincing Roger Ebert to show solidarity with his fellow environmentalist by turning off the lights one day. We are saved.
Posted by Sid at June 3, 2006 09:44 AM | Environment
