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Climate Crisis

By: Timothy O

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -Mark Twain

This quote really hit home as I sat through each painful minute of "An Inconvenient Truth".

And it is most definitely that, an inconvenient truth, when it comes to global warming. Many of us do little or nothing to stop it and so far as I'm concerned, that is a direct reflection on us as individuals. At some point it becomes less about *you* and more about the future of our civilization. The second I returned home I began looking into hybrid cars, that is how intense the movie hit me. I'm almost ready to go ahead and do it, that is buy a green car, regardless of the [inconvenient] financial repercussions that might have.

There's really no choice in the matter anymore. You should own a green car if you can realistically do so. Inconvenient and impossible are completely different words. Would it be inconvenient for you to buy a newer, greener automobile? Maybe. Would it be impossible? For some of us, the answer is no. Then you should be driving a green car... it's as simple as that. Same goes with recycling and buying energy efficient appliances.

Graph after graph, image after image drove that stake deeper and deeper my friends. It's not just some hair-brained theory that humans are causing global warming, it's pretty much a fact. Sure, correlation doesn't mean causality, but when you can see with the naked eye, a linear relationship between the rise in human population, the rise in atmospheric CO2 and a rise in global warming, all of which are WELL beyond the natural trend throughout the previous 650,000 years.... somewhere there's gotta be a red flag. Somewhere you've gotta stop kidding yourself. These numbers are from *you*; or at the very least you own a fraction.

At some point we have to take a step back and make some changes. If you refuse to make the necessary changes, thrn you are a self-centered, egocentric, maniac. Sorry... but that's just another inconvenient truth.

In the end, a lot of people have their heart and soul attached to the middle east crisis despite (in my opinion) a greater concern. That I know of, no one has yet talked intimately about global warming. No one cares enough about it. Am I wrong? We are slowly but surely destroying the planet and all we can talk about and do research on is junk. Just stuff to impress people with our political "knowledge" and our being up-to-date on world affairs. Thanks, but I read the newspaper and I don't care to have it regurgitated to me just for your personal twist. Want to really impress someone? Make a dent in global warming. Care about something outside of yourself and your immediate gratification with the least amount of sacrifice. Sorry, I'm getting a little too angry here.

I encourage everyone to see the movie. Unfortunately, it really makes you sad to see Al Gore as a yong man and now, realizing his failure to have people recognize (to the point of drastic change) global warming. He said specifically that in all of his years, he has probably given a presentation on global warming over 1,000 times yet still, June 28th 2005 went down in history as the hottest day on record.

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