Hey, just wanted to mention that there's a movie coming out ("An Inconvenient Truth") that I, for one, intend to see. According to its website:
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.
It sounds pretty interesting, and, by gawd, it's about the environment! For those of us in Ontario, you will be able to see it in theatres in Toronto, Ottawa, London, and Waterloo (check for
cities/theatres/dates). I'll be sending out an e-mail to my Toronto-based friends soon to see if we can assemble a "posse" to go see it together the first week it's in town. :)
2 comments:
Read this morning in the Washington Post that Al is even willing to show a private viewing for Mr. Bush, to which he replied "I doubt it". I can't wait til 2008!
Jeremy Driver
[QUOTE] Asked if he plans to see "An Inconvenient Truth," the new film on global warming featuring Al Gore, Bush smiled. "Doubt it," he said. [ENDQUOTE] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052200115.html?sub=AR
You weren't kidding, Jeremy ... But why should any of be surprised? This man has *zero* curiosity in others' perspectives, policy, or much of anything at all, as far as I can determine.
I guess the question is, despite Bush's abyssmal poll ratings and the fact that Bush himself will retire from the presidency in 2008, will Americans still choose/get more of the same???? I wish I could have more faith that things will change in 2008, although that is my fervent hope.
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