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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

by Al Gore

An Inconvenient Truth has a companion book to the film by the same name and is an essential introduction, essentially a documentary. An Inconvenient Truth follows a dramatic plot in the sequence in which facts are revealed and predictions are emphasized without listing facts in a dry, mechanical manner. An Inconvenient Truth includes many segments intended to refute critics who say that global warming is insignificant or unproven. The overall picture is an accurate summary of what we are doing to our planet, our home.

Current Environmental crisis may at times appear to be happening at a snails pace, but in fact it is happening very quickly-and has become a true planetary emergency. Photographs taken overhead by NASA and others are stunning as well as frightening showing how areas have changed due to human actions over several decades into the present.

Are they, governments and their agencies; corporations; business people; investors, resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, taking responsibility, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it that the truth makes people uncomfortable because it causes them to take responsibility for over consumption, selfish desire of continued competing against the fictional Jones, unwillingness to give up a gas hog-even once in a while in favor of public transportation? Taking personal responsibility is not something people in the U.S. are good at, pointing fingers is. Personal responsibility makes people admit the truth and that is uncomfortable.

A serious move toward a renewable energy program needs to be launched, yesterday, tomorrow is too late. It should focus on photovoltaics, solar heating and colling, wind power, biofuels like ethanol (from something better than corn) and biodiesel, among conservation and other programs to move to a sustainable present. Energy experts claim that if the largely depopulated Great Plains were turned into a huge wind farm, it could supply 100% of U.S. electricity needs.

An Inconvenient Truth shows that we can have a healthy sane capitalistic society as well as sane workable healthy environment. Sustainability is the key. Bush's idea it costs too much to be sustainable is 100% false! An Inconvenient Truth makes the issue of global warming real for anyone who reads the book or views the film.

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