It can make you feel inconvenient

An inconvenient truth is a film about global warming and climate change. It was released in 2006 and it has been very controversial because it is a very critical documentary. Al Gore, who had been the Vice President of the USA, is the narrator of the plot, a mixture of some parts from one of the many environmental conferences that he has made around the world and scenes with a voice-over.

It denounces the great trouble where we are now and the problems that can come in the near future. He explains that the results of many scientific studies about the temperature of the environment, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or the cold and hot ages during the life of our planet, for example, using techniques like analysis of ice from the icecaps, has revealed that, in the last two or three centuries, the human being has drastically changed the world and now we are starting to suffer the consequences.

Ice in the poles and glaciers is melting very fast, many animal species are endangered, natural disasters are becoming greater and more and more frequent, hurricanes, droughts, floods, etc. And this is only the beginning if we don’t do anything. What Al Gore says is that we have to act, we must learn from our mistakes and that it isn’t a political issue but a moral issue. Some influential people say that there’s no reason to worry, and maybe the following quote explains one of our problems:

It's difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Some of the resources used in this film are real videos from TV news, pictures of natural disasters, images of the same place but taken during different years and many charts. All of them show that, as its name suggests, this truth is really inconvenient.

I won’t only recommend you this film, but I think that you MUST watch this film if you are really worried about the world were you live, if you want a future for your children or for people who could live from now on, if you still believe that there is no need to start changing now, even if you don’t mind about others and you think you won’t live enough time to be affected by this problem.

I haven’t seen it announced in our cinemas, but I think that this documentary should be watched in the schools, that people should promote it to their friends, to their neighbours. For me, it hasn’t by any means been a waist of time.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL November12, 1936.

Now, I want to watch another film called The age of stupid, which has recently been launched. It seems to be very interesting and, as I’ve read, it talks about a man who lives in 2055, in a world destroyed by climate change, and he asks the reason why we didn’t stop it when we had the chance.

I finish with the trailer of An inconvenient truth: