Al Buddy, I Wish You Well
Last night, I finally got to watch Al Gore's global warming documentary "An Inconvient Truth."
Wow. It was not just an incredibly important film about what I have long considered to be the most important issue of our time, but a surprisingly moving, entertaining and well crafted film as well (despite the moniker of "Boring Al" that dances through people's heads when they think of Gore).
When will we wake up? The internal combustion engine (among other things) is destroying our planet. Unfortunately, it also making a lot of people very, very, rich. Exxon-Mobile posted a 10 billion dollar profit last quarter. Not revenues, PROFITS. I want to puke.
As long as these greedy bastards (I don't use this term lightly, I think they have literally forgotten anything they ever learned about ethics, morality or responsibility) continue to have free run throughout the galaxy, uh...planet, we'll just continue to send our home, the only home we have, and one of God's greatest gifts to us, down the crapper. I still want to puke.
But what to do? There were a lot of great suggestions at the end of the film by Gore, and interspersed throughout the final credits, but I have a few ideas of my own. I believe Congress should pass a bill whereby all US manufactures must IMMEDIATELY double their fuel efficiency standards. Then, each year, for every gas powered model they produce, they should produce one that creates no green-house gases. For example, if Ford wishes to present 16 models of cars in 2008, then 8 must be Green. Then, each year, they must decrease the gas powered models offered by one and increase the Green models by one, year by year, until they sell nothing but Green autos. This ensures continued -perhaps even increased- employment for Americans, a healthy sense of innovation, and a rosy future for the American auto industry, which right now, is about to collapse. Not to mention the fact that we would be all but saving the planet. There is that. Which is nice.
But you know what? I don't think it's gonna happen. If Al Gore, with his noteriety and dedication to his personal crusade, can't get Congress' attention, how will I?
What is it actually gonna take to get things done? I have some idea, but because of all the black-hooded, black-hearted, narrow-minded, paranoid, 1st Amendment defiling members of the beauracratic behemoth running our country, I'm afraid I would suddenly just disappear.
God Bless You, Al.
And God help us all, we're going to need it.
Wow. It was not just an incredibly important film about what I have long considered to be the most important issue of our time, but a surprisingly moving, entertaining and well crafted film as well (despite the moniker of "Boring Al" that dances through people's heads when they think of Gore).
When will we wake up? The internal combustion engine (among other things) is destroying our planet. Unfortunately, it also making a lot of people very, very, rich. Exxon-Mobile posted a 10 billion dollar profit last quarter. Not revenues, PROFITS. I want to puke.
As long as these greedy bastards (I don't use this term lightly, I think they have literally forgotten anything they ever learned about ethics, morality or responsibility) continue to have free run throughout the galaxy, uh...planet, we'll just continue to send our home, the only home we have, and one of God's greatest gifts to us, down the crapper. I still want to puke.
But what to do? There were a lot of great suggestions at the end of the film by Gore, and interspersed throughout the final credits, but I have a few ideas of my own. I believe Congress should pass a bill whereby all US manufactures must IMMEDIATELY double their fuel efficiency standards. Then, each year, for every gas powered model they produce, they should produce one that creates no green-house gases. For example, if Ford wishes to present 16 models of cars in 2008, then 8 must be Green. Then, each year, they must decrease the gas powered models offered by one and increase the Green models by one, year by year, until they sell nothing but Green autos. This ensures continued -perhaps even increased- employment for Americans, a healthy sense of innovation, and a rosy future for the American auto industry, which right now, is about to collapse. Not to mention the fact that we would be all but saving the planet. There is that. Which is nice.
But you know what? I don't think it's gonna happen. If Al Gore, with his noteriety and dedication to his personal crusade, can't get Congress' attention, how will I?
What is it actually gonna take to get things done? I have some idea, but because of all the black-hooded, black-hearted, narrow-minded, paranoid, 1st Amendment defiling members of the beauracratic behemoth running our country, I'm afraid I would suddenly just disappear.
God Bless You, Al.
And God help us all, we're going to need it.