inconvenient truthyesterday, my roommate and i sat down with a chilean named raimundo and watched al gore’s an inconvenient truth. it is an excellent movie. it is a serious movie, but still interesting to watch. it’s very convincing. there seems to be good hard science behind most everything that is said (if not everything). in the movie they talk about the devastation that would occur if greenland’s ice were to melt off the island into the sea. basically it would put a good amount of Manhattan under water. which sucks for many reasons. oh yeah, it would also put lots of florida, china, louisiana and 60 million people in india under water too. it’s a devastating scenario to put it lightly.

it is at the very very least. an inconvenient truth.

so that was yesterday.

then today i’m checking out the nytimes.com top ten emailed list and what do i see (besides the #1 story being a love editorial about shamu (that i actually thought was pretty good))? yes that was a double parens.

inconvenient truthi see a story about greenland melting for fucks sake. so in the course of a night it personally went from an inconvenient truth that i’d kinda been ignoring to a pressing issue with real consequences.

so in an effort to do something i’m telling people i know about the dvd and making an effort to change myself. so check out the dvd. rent it, netflix it, blockbuster it, youtoob it, scope it on the interwebs, whatever. it’s a problem and it’s a big one – but it’s a problem that we can have an impact on. that actually made a huge difference for me. we can still get somewhat of a handle on this prob. in 10 years, who knows, we might not be able to say the same thing. but right now we can help turn things around.

so i’m gonna buy some energy saving lightbulbs, and read up on my local politicos’ policies, and you’re gonna watch the flick, right?

cool.