An Inconvenient Truth
The film/documentary An Inconvenient Truth was an amazing and informative piece. Al Gore gave an extremely thorough and complete presentation of the facts about global warming. He was able to anticipate the doubts the audience would have, some of which I had, and dissprove them. For example, I was taught that the world goes through cyclical warming and cooling periods and that the world was simply in a warming part of the cycle. The presentation was able to forsee this and displayed a graph showing that, yes the earth does go through a cycle, but currently the earth is at a temperature well above what it has ever been before, even while in a warming cycle. Many of my preconceptions about global warming were proved wrong in this documentary and I now have more of a sense of the true dangers of global warming.
This a documentary that I think everyone should watch. It opened my eyes to a lot of things. I did not realize all of the consequences that are occuring because of global warming and all of the problems that it could cause in the near future. The images that had the greatest impact on me were the map of how much land would be under water if parts of Greenland and/or Antarctica melted and the animated clip of the polar bear not being able to find a piece of ice to rest on and it was forced to continue swimming in the vast ocean, with no land or ice in sight. These are only some of the results of global warming.
I liked how the documentary did not leave you totally overwhelmed with a sense that the problem was too big for one person to make a difference. Gore gave a list of actions that individuals could take and he showed how big of an impact that this would make on the problem. He gave conceivable and possible solutions that would be easy to follow.
