This debate is rather sad.
Since environmental concerns have been made issues on political platforms, they are being made targets to all the same smut campains, released greed instincts and corruption syphons that politics thrive on.
Yes there are basic and major errors in the predictions made by this movie but still they are based on straight observations which can't be denied. It is a source of information, an attention grabber for those not yet sensitized, a debate provoker. Today's Earth dweller is bombarded with worthless media induced trash to a point of desensitization. Wouldn't you agree that percussive extrapolations grabs the attention necessary to bring new faith to the subject?
This political carousel must be stopped. I agree that politics are the most powerful ways of moving things but also the slowest. Not necessarily what is needed at this point. A social example is much faster, if something's 'in' the populace is much more likely to act on.
This whole green movement is a conscience about facts that must remain personal at first, that must spur gestures suggested by a larger goal. It is to be imitated and then evolved. We are moving and recycling and asking to get the 'green' services if they are not available. That's laudable. The trick is to not stop and then find something else to contribute. That's what doing good is all about.
By now everybody knows what's good and what's not for this environment. It is a personnal choice to act on. The Earth life support layer will maintain itself only when the balance which has been disturbed has been reestablished, we all know that. But still there are those who find any reason not to act and blame anything but themselves. We all live, and can, with a high degree of tolerance toward guilt. Shame is, there are those who have none, no guilt whatsoever, thus no purpose but to themselves in their short presence here on to this world.
Sad debate between those who want their kids and further offspring to survive and those who couldn't care less. Its always been... will it change?
There is this guy here who's written a book about people saying they are green at heart and who've never done a thing about it. Does anybody recognize themselves? I do! Myself and others around! I still have that big delivery truck, although I don't use it for anything but cargo hauling. I'd love to have a better solution and there could be. As one who wants good my task now is to ask loudly for changes, for solutions, to ask others to ask with me, and not stop. It's the only way for a tiny individual to set motion to a big wheel. Mr Gore has done just that and used what mediatic power leftover from his hasbeen political life to help things. That's why he's been thanked.
It shouldn't stop there...
Just my small, corny sounding voice.
I want to use something else than oil!