An Inconvenient Truth

I went to the premier of An Inconvenient Truth with a group of friends on Friday. I have some mixed feelings about the movie, but it was close to what I expected — which was what I’d call a very political movie geared towards making you believe in and want to do something about the global warming problem versus being a discovery channel special on what we can do to fix the global warming problem.



EEE could be seen gritting her teeth through lots of the movie, while everyone else seemed to find it somewhat interesting. I bring her up because I don’t want to give anyone the impression that this is a movie filled with countless great tips that will have an immediate effect on the world. It’s more of a "wake up and rattle the doors of your politicians" kind of movie, the kind that makes Al Gore look like a saint. (And well, compared to G.B. that isn’t all that suprising). She expected some compelling evidence and some equally impressive solutions which was not the case.



I think they could have rounded it a bit more and given us some tips on what we can immediately do to save energy, but who hasn’t heard the things we can do to save energy thousands of times? The idea is larger, that as a nation the US should be paving the way towards energy efficiency but instead we’re far, far behind. Lawmakers are the people who have a good bit of authoritative control over this progress, so it’s up to us to get them to move in this direction.



If the idea of the movie interests you, or if you saw the movie with me, you might be interested in another movie coming out soon called Who Killed the Electric Car? Another politically oriented, tree-hugging, energy crisis type of movie.



Oh, and a small rant here. Al Gore is quoted as saying "This isn’t so much a political issue as it is a moral issue." I’ve been very careful about my use of the word "moral" since I read Garner’s insightful Beyond Morality, and while I guess it works for most people, I’d much rather AG make this an ethical issue of the people of the world than saying we have some sort of moral obligation to fix this problem.