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The Most Powerful Documentary I've Ever Seen

This morning I saw "An Inconvenient Truth," a very insightful documentary presented by the former vice president of the United States Al Gore. For the entire 90 minutes of the film, I was practically glued to every detail he uttered about how much we are losing in our environment. Fortunately, the viewer I used on my PC was savvy enough for me to take snapshots or video grabs while it was running. I felt I had to provide this kind of information to everyone I know because I believe we owe it to ourselves to know this and awaken our sense of responsibility to our future generations.

Al Gore seamlessly elaborated on the factors for collision with preservation of the earth's atmosphere. He says one is population which is directly proportional to food and water demand; and technology, meaning the gadgets and devices we buy, the cars we drive that equate to increasing carbon emissions that trap our stratosphere. Each of us, technically speaking, is a cause of global warming or the climate crisis.

Al Gore's documentary was so stunning in that it showed the ramifications of the environmental concern we are facing. The hurricanes specifically Katrina in New Orleans; the meltdown of glaciers in many parts of the world; even stronger typhoons in Asia particularly in India, China and Japan; drought in Australia; and the increasing epidemic the most popular we know is SARS; other resurgent and redistributing diseases; all of these have posed a global warning to us.

As the film went on, Al Gore presented a wide array of elementary solutions to combat the threat to our existence. Firstly, we can utilize renewable resources to help save the artic ice cap for instance, to capture these carbon emissions, to lessen the consumption of energy, to save gas, to eradicate water and air pollution, and the list goes on.

In one part of the film was I astounded when Al Gore said "political will is a renewable resource." Yes, I truly believe that. In the U.S., they mentioned that people should write to Congress and be active in imparting this information. With new technologies coming into the fore of our present civilization, we as earth's inhabitants should submit to our moral obligation to take part in changing the way we live. This film teaches us that doing the right thing moves us forward; the solution is in our hands!



The question is are we capable of rising above ourselves and our history?

If we don't wake up and act on it now, this will be the very same question our children will ask in the more alarming future.

Let us pray that we find the strength to wake up to this moral challenge that is upon us. After all, the earth is our home.

For your interest in global warming and to take action on it, visit www.climatecrisis.net.