My advice, see the movie and see the light!

I drove 100 miles to Nashville yesterday to see "An Inconvenient Truth". When I hit Nashville I had an hour to spare, but I soon found myself heading away from the theater due to driving in traffic and trying to read, w/bifocals, mapquest directions that had me hopping from I24 to I65 to I40 to I440 in less than five miles. With 3 minutes left before the movie started I found myself in crawling traffic stopped at a signal next to the Mall where the theater was at, then finally in a false victory of sorts, cruising a full parking lot for the next 5 minutes! There is more but...

Turns out I missed less than 2 minutes of the beginning thanks to the 15 minutes of commercials and previews. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT! YEHHHH!!!!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

I admit I expected somewhat less information compared to a number of sources I have used. I thought "Too Hot Not to Handle" was nearly void of supporting data and kind of disappointing in affect. An early interview I read about the "Truth" tore it up, suggesting that it was nothing other than a political ploy by Gore and not giving hardly a sentence to the message, what an idiotic review, the reviewer shoot be tortured and have his had lopped off.

The whole movie was put together in a very thoughtful way. It connected a young man who's early experiences and ideals which are still evidently heart felt, with the crusade he now conducts. The data and connectivity to a range of affected areas of the planet is powerful, intelligent and unquestionable. Gore's concern is well contained in his usual professional posture, but the close-ups the movie makers placed here and there of Gore looking out a planes window or at his notebook or even as he drudges alone through yet another airport on his way to give another presentation were portraits of a real man, an unsung hero, a compassionate person who loves this world and his fellow man. I felt bad for him to take on such a burden and the pain he must feel inside when he sees this world slipping away and still he keeps his shoulders back fighting the good fight.

I knew when the movie was over that I was going to clap even if it was by myself, but a lot of clapping broke out behind me. The last time that happened to me was when I saw the first "Rocky".

In this movie, Al goes into the ring and faces the biggest foe mankind has ever faced, GLOBAL WARMING. My admiration for Gore has increased so much. I would love to have a real hero as president. What a difference that would be! To love my president. Could that really happen before I die?

I hope it is alright to add this here under personal Gore experiences. (I wish you would "pin" a "An Inconvenient Truth Comments" or "I saw An Inconvenient Truth" thread.) Not so much for the members but for those who stumble here questioning the significance of Gore's message I have to ask if it is worth the gamble of ignoring it. I would bet Al Gore saw the movie I mention below and it registered in much the same way it did for me. Probably somewhere in the back of his mind he knows that it is possible that mankind could find himself living a very similar story if we continue on this path in ignorance. Even so, Gore has a good message too in "An Inconvenient Truth". He has a positive attitude with real solutions and convincing reasons as to how we can make things better. The key being "we can".

Now if you aren't worried about Man Made Climate Change, than you just don't have much if any idea of the possibilities in store for our world should we not treat it more sensibly starting now. So "Soylent Green" is a movie I highly recommend seeing, whether you have seen it or not, see it again. This time forget about the green crackers made from dead "things", instead, there are many other issues to focus on. It is very feasible, especially now knowing what we do.

First, note how most of the people are living. The poor people, the majority of citizens, starving and either homeless or in less than esthetic situations greatly contrast the more fortunate who have such amazing amenities as meat, jam, hot and cold showers. What would it take to cause most to exhaust their savings or loose their income and homes, to be hungry everyday? For most I think not much because basically our security is a very thin veneer dependent on a number of things beyond one's individual control, not the least to say is the environment. Our economy and civilization as we know it are both a thin veneer hinging on another thin veneer, the earth's atmosphere.

Second, the true significance of the underlying reason that is discovered to be the need for the shift to the green crackers. And... interesting to me is that not only do the wealthy decide the unthinkable solution to feed the poor but they do it covertly. Yes, I know it is fiction, but there seems to be a lot of fiction going on these days that our leaders would have us swallow, especially when doing the bidding of big oil and other big and powerful industries.

Third, and this one really passed me by initially when I first saw the movie, was a scene where Heston's character in a frantic frenzied effort to stop Edward G. Robinson from cashing in his chips at the local suicide shop, gets distracted and mesmerized by something he has never seen, never realized, "I didn't know", he says in awe, he is so distracted by this site that he nearly forgets about Robinson. That is an amazing scene and back when I saw it I guess it was understandable that I did not catch the real significance of it. Ask yourself if it is at all possible that there could be sometime in the not too distant future that a person of Heston's characters age could actually not have known what he sees at that moment. See the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and ask yourself again.

For anyone to take what Gore says lightly or as fiction is to gamble on our future. To use any of the sorry sources that they have used to discredit Gore and the worlds top scientists is suicidal, stupid, and outrageous.