rurounihime | Global Warming and a movie rec

EVERYONE:

If you have not yet seen An Inconvenient Truth (aka, That New Documentary By Al Gore), please take 100 minutes out of your life to see it as soon as possible.

I kid you not, it is an eye-opener. If I have any pull at all in this fandom, I would love to use it this way. I am not going to lj-cut this because I want people to read it.

~If you haven't seen the movie because it's not playing where you are, then please find someone who has seen it to tell you all about it.

~If you haven't seen it because you think it is just another sad ploy for political hegemony by Al Gore, who is getting his revenge because he lost the election way back when, then please, please look around that to the MUCH BIGGER, MORE IMPORTANT, AND LESS PETTY environmental issue.

~If you haven't seen it because you don't want to be depressed, then I'm sorry to say that ignoring it isn't going to make it go away. The more you know about a thing, the less frightening that thing is.

~If you haven't seen it because you just hate Al Gore, then see it for the environmental message instead because that involves everyone, not just Gore-fans.

And most importantly:

~If you haven't seen it because you don't believe global warming actually exists or you are completely on the fence about said existence, then go see it if only to acknowledge the arguments in favor of the existence of global warming. If nothing else, it will make your opposing argument better if you know exactly what is being said on the other side. And who knows, the movie might change your mind.

I think it's important to note that the film acknowledges the urge to feel despair at its ominous message. But the film also reminds us that there is a step between acknowledgement and despair, and that step is action. We can still DO something about this. It doesn't require panic. It requires little improvements by everyone, and those are most definitely not out of our reach.

Just change something about your lifestyle. One person most definitely cannot solve this problem and it's stupid to think that a single person can. But a hundred-thousand people doing little things can do a LOT.

Please see the film. I can't emphasize the importance of this issue in our lives enough. As someone very close to me has told me again and again, this issue of global warming will probably be The Issue of our generation. I agree.