An Inconvenient Truth

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:34 pm

I'm not going near this anywhere that Tycho could have a chance at seeing it.

I watched this tonight and was absolutely fascinated; not so much by the science of it (which was interesting enough) but by Al Gore. It's been 7 years since he (and all of you living in the US) got fucked over - the world could be utterly and completely unrecognizably different by now.

But simply speaking of the movie and nothing else politically opinionated - I thought it did a very good job of trying to light a fire under people, to create understanding and (hopefully) a desire to try and do our part to help with global warming.

I'm a conflict avoider - I'd love for this to go away.... but it's not going to. I don't think I'll be lazily flipping yogurt containers and empty drink boxes into the garbage for the next little bit, let's put it that way.

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:52 pm

Much like Al Gore, it was boring yet informative.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:59 am

Sadly, there's no long term planning for these kinds of things, because this country lives from election to election, where policy changes flip flip with every new incoming administration, and they are only concerned with keeping their contributors happy with short-term fiscally rewarding answers.

"What is this going to cost my campaign backers and their rich Fortune 500 companies for the next four years. We'll do whatever it is that saves/earns them money and fuck the future generations, because that's the FUTURE president's problem."

And the REALLY sad thing is that this rationale is SO FUCKING OBVIOUS how we run this country and STILL noone does anything about it. I wonder if this is how Rome felt before it fell?

Post by **vynsane** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:40 pm

Eternal Padawan wrote:And the REALLY sad thing is that this rationale is SO FUCKING OBVIOUS how we run this country and STILL noone does anything about it. I wonder if this is how Rome felt before it fell?

that and the parallels between reality TV and gladiatorial competition make me think "yes".

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat May 05, 2007 10:10 am

It's even sadder. Rome never had the ability to destroy the entire global ecosystem by just continuing to do what they do every day.

Radical change is needed, and our government up here thinks that by loweing the "intensity" of the emissions, that will do our part. Fucktards.