Response to Al Gore's Movie An Inconvenient Truth

Inconvenient Truths of Great Issues and Minute

Profoundly important issues are raised in An Inconvenient Truth. These issues cover a range of things from the great to the minute, from the direct to the indirect, from the obvious to the surprising. And each large or small, direct or indirect, familiar or new issue revolves around the personal, individual choices we make.

Al Gore's (former Vice President of the United States) new movie An Inconvenient Truth tells the story of the effects on the planet, Earth, of the industrial and military (even medical) progress of mankind. It is a story that takes a dramatic turn about 150 years earlier and a radically profound turn about sixty years earlier than today. The direct importance of this story is visually summed up in An Inconvenient Truth in the data charts and pictures of Greenland melting, of the North Pole melting and of Antarctica melting. The indirect importance of this story is summed up in the way indoor air in your house smells, oddly enough.

Al Gore offers very specific means through which every single individual - financially secure or poor, healthy or ill - can make a contribution to the the planet, Earth, that will help change the ending of the story. The story is a suspense thriller and, at the moment, we're at the part where it looks like the evil villains are going to win. The story is a love story and, at the moment, we're at the part where it looks like truth and love and right will be vanquished and the love story will crumble into the sea. The means to change the ending of this story rests in daily choices, in minutia, in what might be thought of, by some, as irrelevancies.