The Fact Is...

[talktooloose]

The fact is that, four days after seeing An Inconvenient Truth, I'm not all that okay. The documentary was just superb. Complex ideas were made clear, ridiculous myths were elegantly shredded and Gore presented a message of hope including listing successes we've made when we've confronted past environmental problems.

I was particularly impressed when he said that we have a tendency to jump from denial to despair without stopping in the middle in the place where we might take action.

But since the high I felt in the wake of the movie, I have been particularly vulnerable to the wretched stupidity of the human race. Yesterday, the lead-off news items were the people of Nunavut fighting the federal governement for the rights to the oil reserves off their coast and a giant oil fire in Sarnia, Ontario.

The arctic and antarctic are receiving by the far the most extreme climate change effects (ones that threaten us all and very soon) so now they want the right to exploit fossil fuels? To help their economy? And then there's that giant oil fire in Sarnia.

I think the message of hope is vitally important, but I'm panicking more and more as the week goes on.

My carbon footprint, btw, seems to be about 2 tonnes per year compared to the Ontario average of 5.29 tonnes. That's a start; wonder if I can do better?

lol. this is the closest I have to an enviro-icon.

Comments

this is the closest I have to an enviro-icon.

[yoella.livejournal.com]

I would totally vote Tom Welling's ass for President of Green Peace. He'd just have to bend over, and unlimited ammounts of clean energy would come flying outta his beautiful hole.

Also, yah, I went through exactly the same thing when I first saw the movie. :P

Some kinda wonderful, ain't it?

[a-trick-mind.livejournal.com]

I love the skinny dipping icon but the least he could have done was to turn around. :)

Al Gore did a phenomenal job on the documentary. I wish more people could/would see it.

[strumquill.livejournal.com]

Have heart, I've just heard that they have discovered some 50 "googly eyed" species (prob a kind term for slimy and butt ugly) in the deep ocean trenches off Japan. These species are supposed to be resilient to pollution and high toxicity.

So there will always be someTHING that survives whatever the climate turns out to be if the rest of us don't.

I'm just wondering how these "googly eyed" things are gonna taste when I'm 60 and the codfish are all dead :/

yes, great movie by Al Gore (of all people). This environmental degradation is just - to me - the slow realization of all the cynical, dire predictions my Environmental Studies profs made in my undergrad 20 years ago.

So, I don't tend to despair as long as the inevitble decay remains morbidly predictable.

Cynical Cody

[redknot.livejournal.com]

heh, i've bee struggling hard with this. someday we should go for a beer, talk about this a bit, and then move on to pretty boys as a chaser :)

[new-improved.livejournal.com]

that movie is finally #2 in my netflix queue, so i'll get to see what all the ballyhoo is about. are you going to start supporting those carbon charities? they smell scammish to me.