An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore - Wow!

After his "I invented the Internet" fiasco, I was not so sure whether watching a film involving Al Gore would be a good idea. My cousin had recommended it a few months back but I kept putting it off until last week when I finally got to watch it. It's not like I was not aware of Global warming as a term but this documentary helped put the concept in to perspective. The one thing I liked about the documentary was the way the facts were represented as figures, graphs and trends. It made me realize that we are not aware of so many things happening around us that contribute directly or indirectly to this phenomenon. I would not say that suddenly I have started caring about the planet after watching it but at least from now on I can gradually start making the changes towards solving this issue. I would highly recommend to all of you to watch this documentary and to take a stand which I am pretty sure there would be just one way to go about it. Below are a few of the quotes that I found really interesting:

Al Gore: [quoting Mark Twain] "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."

Al Gore: [quoting Upton Sinclair] "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Al Gore: We have everything, save perhaps political will. But in America, I believe political will is a renewable resource.

Al Gore: I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Al Gore: You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

Al Gore: You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It's quiet; it's peaceful. And all of a sudden, it's a gear shift inside you. And it's like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh yeah, I forgot about this."

Al Gore: Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

Al Gore: What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Al Gore: It takes time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.