Movie Review: An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore's mass media approach to a slideshow
presentation done on a Mac.
The issue is global warming. The production values
are pretty good. I like the low-key approach to Mr. Gore's political career. The
emphasis is on the issues, not his career or future agenda. I can respect
that.
Humans are the cause of global warming. OK. Given. And there is evidence to support that conjecture. Since man hit the scene, from the beginning of Eden in Mesopotamia, man has caused the global warming gases to increase. I agree! We destroy the plants that can convert our carbon dioxide back into oxygen. We pollute our air freely, and have done so since the discovery of fire, though I attribute most of that to the era since the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Given. And he even touches on my explanation for it all: since 1950, the population of the earth has tripled, from two billion people to six billion. Wait. that is a lot of zeroes... let me show you. From:
2,000,000,000 people to
6,000,000,000 people.
OK... Again. Let's pretend you play the lottery and won six hundred million dollars. You could then turn around and give every person on the planet a grand total of ten cents! Each! If you only won sixty million dollars, you could only give each person one cent. One lousy penny! He couldn't even buy a piece of gum!
This planet was designed to comfortably hold half a billion, tops. After that, things happen. Plague, famine, weather cycles go haywire. Wait.. that sounds like what's happening to us right now! well, you know what? The planet fights back. And I think it's going to fight back until we are back down to our half a billion. If global warming doesn't do it, then diseases will, or famine. All my life, I've heard of children starving in Africa and India and China because these continents and countries are too overpopulated to support that kind of body mass. They survive through the efforts of other countries. We can do that now, send food to the hungry. But are we supposed to? We overthrow the balance. And I'm not saying we should stop. But there is more to global warming than just humans cleaning up their waste and environment. We have to stop breathing! And the planet will make us.
What happens when we become too populous? We go to war over this or that piece of land. Thousands die and the winning country expands a little to accommodate the survivors. We go to war, us, humans. And, in doing so, we spread even more disease and pollution. It is inevitable. It's how the French fought the Indigenous Americans when they first came to the New World, selling them infected blankets so that they would catch diseases, die or become to ill to fight, then send in soldiers to kill the survivors. It is our history!
How do we change this? I'm not sure we can. I think the earth will fight back until our numbers are back where they belong. Can we change our thinking and fix some problems? Sure! We can change our thinking, radically, to include a global society and a global marketplace. A single race of people, humans, instead of nationalities and the color of our skin. But that is exactly what it's going to take, a change in attitude so drastic that some peoples, some ways of living, will not survive, thus bringing the numbers down. The planet wins! Twice!
It's not as simple as "green energy." It's not as simple as a hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle. It's a matter of reconstructing our world society. And that is not simple at all.
Final word: See it. If you enjoyed F9/11, this will catch your eye, without the blood and violence of a movie about a concurrent war. If You didn't like F9/11 because of the shots of the war, you might like this; there are lots of pretty charts and some humorous points to be made with them. "It's off the chart!" If you didn't like F9/11 because you are a staunch Republican Party Reptile and feel that the Republican Congress and Presidency can do no wrong, don't see this film. You will not like the fact that it is honest. At all.
Humans are the cause of global warming. OK. Given. And there is evidence to support that conjecture. Since man hit the scene, from the beginning of Eden in Mesopotamia, man has caused the global warming gases to increase. I agree! We destroy the plants that can convert our carbon dioxide back into oxygen. We pollute our air freely, and have done so since the discovery of fire, though I attribute most of that to the era since the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Given. And he even touches on my explanation for it all: since 1950, the population of the earth has tripled, from two billion people to six billion. Wait. that is a lot of zeroes... let me show you. From:
2,000,000,000 people to
6,000,000,000 people.
OK... Again. Let's pretend you play the lottery and won six hundred million dollars. You could then turn around and give every person on the planet a grand total of ten cents! Each! If you only won sixty million dollars, you could only give each person one cent. One lousy penny! He couldn't even buy a piece of gum!
This planet was designed to comfortably hold half a billion, tops. After that, things happen. Plague, famine, weather cycles go haywire. Wait.. that sounds like what's happening to us right now! well, you know what? The planet fights back. And I think it's going to fight back until we are back down to our half a billion. If global warming doesn't do it, then diseases will, or famine. All my life, I've heard of children starving in Africa and India and China because these continents and countries are too overpopulated to support that kind of body mass. They survive through the efforts of other countries. We can do that now, send food to the hungry. But are we supposed to? We overthrow the balance. And I'm not saying we should stop. But there is more to global warming than just humans cleaning up their waste and environment. We have to stop breathing! And the planet will make us.
What happens when we become too populous? We go to war over this or that piece of land. Thousands die and the winning country expands a little to accommodate the survivors. We go to war, us, humans. And, in doing so, we spread even more disease and pollution. It is inevitable. It's how the French fought the Indigenous Americans when they first came to the New World, selling them infected blankets so that they would catch diseases, die or become to ill to fight, then send in soldiers to kill the survivors. It is our history!
How do we change this? I'm not sure we can. I think the earth will fight back until our numbers are back where they belong. Can we change our thinking and fix some problems? Sure! We can change our thinking, radically, to include a global society and a global marketplace. A single race of people, humans, instead of nationalities and the color of our skin. But that is exactly what it's going to take, a change in attitude so drastic that some peoples, some ways of living, will not survive, thus bringing the numbers down. The planet wins! Twice!
It's not as simple as "green energy." It's not as simple as a hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle. It's a matter of reconstructing our world society. And that is not simple at all.
Final word: See it. If you enjoyed F9/11, this will catch your eye, without the blood and violence of a movie about a concurrent war. If You didn't like F9/11 because of the shots of the war, you might like this; there are lots of pretty charts and some humorous points to be made with them. "It's off the chart!" If you didn't like F9/11 because you are a staunch Republican Party Reptile and feel that the Republican Congress and Presidency can do no wrong, don't see this film. You will not like the fact that it is honest. At all.
Posted: Tue - June 27, 2006 at 12:32 AM
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