An Inconvenient Truth

I really enjoy watching a good documentary nowadays (it must be something that comes with age...) and the latest I saw is something I wholeheartedly recommend everybody sees.

Tell your friends and relatives, or take them with you. This is something that shouldn't be missed by anybody, because we all live in the same world and we'll all be affected by global warming in the future (if we haven't yet), whether we like it or not, whether we want to admit it's real or not, whether we have an invested interest in keeping people from learning about it and focusing on it or not.

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's lecture about global warming is full of data, all presented very professionally, passionately, and convincingly by a man who's been trying to do something about this impending catastrophe for something like 30 years.

He presents us with the evidence he collected by talking to experts worldwide and doesn't impose his views on global warming on anyone. He just asks us to look at the evidence and then ask ourselves if we think we should do something about it or not.

I believe global warming is real, all around us, happening right now, as we speak, and that we, humans, are the main (or only) cause of it (at least in this point in time and at these levels). And that belief always made me feel sad. Sad for the planet. Sad for nature. Sad for all the animals who don't have a choice but live in the world we unilaterally altered.

After seeing this movie, I realized that not only should we do something about global warming because it's stupid to wreck the only planet we have, the only place in the universe where we can live, and because we don't 'own' the world, it belongs to all species. But it's also a moral imperative that we do something about it, because it's not right or fair that we delay taking action, only to hand over a world in ruin to future generations.

I really believe that in 100-200 years, people will look back at us and say, What were they thinking? Why didn't they act? Why didn't they do something?

And among those people, there will be our kids, our grandkids, our great-grandkids. Do we really want to leave them a world gone crazy just because it's too hard to deal with it know? Because it would take too many resources to take care of it?

I don't think so. Go see the movie. Talk about it. Share your views. Change people's minds. Change whatever behaviors you can. Everything matters. Everything counts.

We must save Earth.


Grade: 9