Thought Provoking Al Gore Doc For $1
I thought I'd pop in to jot down a quick "I'm still here" entry as well as to say that Sands and I saw "An Inconvenient Truth" last night. In the tradition of docs like "Super Size Me", "Fahrenheit 9/11", and "When We Were Kings" this one posited some very interesting questions, but remains both entertaining and intellectually stimulating.
Here are some notes from what I learned:
- The previous decade from 1998 - 2005 recorded some of the hottest days on Earth. (Al Gore couldn't have hired a better PR to spin this movie as we in Cali just had some crazy heat wave couples of weeks ago.)
- For 650,000 years carbon dioxide (CO2) level has been pretty consistent. Starting in the year 2000 it jumped A LOT!
- the US produced the highest gas guzzlers while the Japanese produced some of the lowest. Even China is outpacing the US in terms of emission standards and miles per gallons set for their cars.
- Gore's black-and-white point of view is just that. Of course there are lots of gray areas about global warming (as the corporations would like to add) but his main point is still: we have a moral responsibility, no make that obligation, to curb global warming so that our children will be able to survive on this "pale blue dot".
Do yourself a favor. Go see it. It's only $1!!! At the very least it will leave you with a better understanding of the consequences of global warming as well as the diminished quality of life for future generations (our children) should this pattern continue.
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Date: Aug 2, 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: Free tickets to see "An Inconvenient Truth"
i got 2 tickets for $2 total. it was educational and i'm glad i saw it. lots of statistics, but dumbed down so that even i could understand it. if the code doesn't work, try AnInconvenientTruth7, etc.i just checked it still works.
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I'm gonna try to see it! I wonder if it will motivate me to take the train... These days I've been lazy and just drive.
CLIEU: It might. Go see it anyway since it's so cheap. I'd recommend you go see it at CineArts in Santana Row as it's a really nice theater. (That's where Sands and I saw it.)
As for the train did you know on Fridays they have the "party car" at the very end where the bikers are. You get to socialize and drink Fat Tires and the like. HaH! How's that for motivation.