An Inconvenient Truth
I really think everyone should try and see this movie, it's not so much depressing as informative and thought provoking.
Al Gore really does imply an interesting point. I totally believe the world would have been quite a different place if he had stayed the President-Elect. Australia would definitely have signed the Kyoto agreement for starters. The War on Terrorism would have been approached fairly differently. Obviously it's hard to compare actuals and 'what couldas' and I understand that Al Gore is a far more informed about the Climate Crisis since he walked away from politics, but I do agree that America really needs to drive this change.
One thing I found super interesting was a diagram of the damage of terrorist attacks to America versus the damage to America if/when the sea level rises.
The other thing; maybe don't buy beach front real estate.
What I found a bit of a shame, is that both my parents and Cara's parents have no interest whatsoever in seeing this movie, which I'm a bit disappointed with. While it was very, very smart to produce a movie like this to start to get the thoughts happening, most people who'll see the movie will already be quite environmentally concious. It's really our parents generation, the people currently making the big decisions that need to get clued up, otherwise it'll be another 10 or 20 years before our generation gets into the appropriate levels of power to start making good changes. The people who need that cluing up the most are the people most likely to resist...
The good thing is, it can be quite fixed, just like the hole in the ozone is repairing, it is mainly going to take some concerted, big efforts by America, China and maybe India.
www.climatecrisis.org
Bunker in the hills, bring boardgames!
posted by Adam @ 12:53 PM
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China and India (and Brazil) - who were exempt from the kyoto protocol to begin with, as developing nations, which was Aus's and US's argument for not signing - have made the push / development to sign the protocol, or at least amended versions of them, which is a big step.
howard is pushing for geosequestration, where we simply pump carbon down km into the earth and hope that it doesn't backfire (which would create more fossil fuels in a few hundred years).
i think we should pump john howard into the earth's core.
Are you serious? I haven't heard of that plan. Would we have to create carbon by burning trees?
I just think that whole thing about Kyoto is so embarrassing for Australia.
http://www.getup.org.au
yeah, but, if everyone accomplished the kyoto goals then we'd still get global warming, it's only like a 2% reduction over the next 20 years
Section 2 explains it pretty well, section 1 tells us that it's already underway...
Def a good movie, but one has to wonder if he is just preaching to the converted. I hope more people see it, and it makes us all want to change.
You are correct about our parent's generation being the least willing to change. I asked my dad to become Carbon Neutral, explaining how it all worked and how really inexpensive it is. i was met with the "give your poor old dad a break..." etc. He seemed under the impression that he paid for his share in improving, or even just maintaining the environment in his taxes. I was grossly disappointed with his whole attitude.
So guess what my whole family's getting for christmas this year..
but mars, your dad does have a valid point. he sacrifices a third of his hard-earned wages which the government use willy-nilly
surely, the onus should fall squarely on the government in this instance??
rhetorical question. our govt is a bunch of greedy pigs.
we need to be more like switzerland or denmark
big props to switzerland and denmark if you're reading...
No, keeks... my dad doesn't have a valid point. The government doesn't use his car, electricity or air conditioning... he does. It is a government responsibility, but when you are stuck with an inept government like ours (which i have no doubt, he voted for), it is up to each individual to at the very LEAST take responsibility for the damage that they cause. And if they're really good, then maybe even more.
You are correct though, Switzerland is by far the most superior county on this planet. I don't know much about Denmark, but i hear all those Scandanavian countries operate pretty well.
If there's one thing this government will be remembered for, it will be the insular out-look it creates in Australians. No-one is particularly interested in what goes on outside their quarter acre in the suburbs or why-o-why has the world wronged us by making petrol so expensive.
End rant, i suppose.
I rather thought that he was making the point that we are all responsible and are all capable of 'doing our bit' [says she with all the lights on, the tv on, and who consumes much more than necessary by living alone...]. It's too easy to put it upon the government to save us. They won't. It's not what they believe in as a government and, unfortunately, the governmental mentality that they've developed will out last them.
Also, fuck the power system. We're old enough to vote then we're a part of the system, if we're a part of the system we can run the fucker - if we choose to. Alas, generational apathy is rampant and most of us participate in only the most minimal of ways [enforced voting rocks!].
Ahem. Rant over...
Oh and Sydneysiders [and the rest of you]: http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/
I'm going and I'm even taking along my own personal hippie.
This is a very serious conversation, Adam. It seems you are maybe *gulp* a grownup? I'm scared.
i guess the first thing you can learn about denmark marssy is that it is not part of scandinavia...
only finland, norway and sweden make up scandinavia.
it was, however, ruled by vikings, along with scandinavia during the dark ages and medieval times. maybe that's where you are getting confused, in your centuries
denmark is part of the EU, just above germany
I have seen this movie and its a good movie.
I thought it was hilarious on the Stewart Show when John Stewart asked Al Gore that when he showed Florida going under water when the sea level rises..if that was a warning to all the people in Florida who elected Bush.
He cracked a smile.
keeks.. WHATEVAHHH! details, details. i said i didn't know anything about the place!
the full extent of my knowledge of Denmark can be summed up in this here very comment section.
My cousin did an exchange there for a year. They've got the princess mary. And their royal names go in order Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian and so on. But it skipped P.Fred's parents, cause his mother is the queen, and they didn't count on that.
Something about vikings.
And that's pretty much it.
Sorry to correct you kiki, but you might want to read a little more about Denmark. We (in case you haven't noticed, i'm from Denmark :-) are actually part of scandinavia. We are also a part of the EU, just like Finland and Sweden, but those two things have nothing to do with each other...
I'll be happy to try and answer any question you might have about my country...
For instance we're the country in the world, who has the biggest percentage of our energy supplied by windmills... The last number i heard was around 20%.. Not really sure what the number is in the US, but if i remember correctly it is around 2-3 percent..
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