The most important movie I've ever seen

I saw An Inconvenient Truth last night. It is without doubt the most important movie I've ever seen. Climate change is obvious. We all know about it, and we all know it's happening. But do we really know what the ramifications are other than everything's going to get a little bit warmer and that the glaciers and melting? Do we know that if it gets 1 degree (fahrenheit) warmer at the equator, it gets 12 degrees warmer at in the arctic and antarctica because of the warm/cold currents? Do we know that with the ice melting at either ends of the planet, that there is less reflection of the sun's rays off the ice, and more heat absorbed into the water, accelerating the rate in which they melt? And there's so much more...

We're already breaking records for the number and severity of hurricanes and cyclones that have ever been seen. Huge bodies of water are disappearing, water levels are rising, drought and severe storms are increasing, species are disappearing, and diseases which used to lie dormant because of harsh winters are proliferating.

I'm casting a huge doom and gloom story just now. But the movie's not like that. It just states facts. It's pragmatic and emotive at the same time. Al Gore has done a truly amazing effort with this movie, and the way he has used the medium of cinema to convey his message is a stroke of genius to ensure that people from all walks of life are privvy to this message.

Of course this message is nothing new, and we've all been aware of it for a while. But are we really aware of what's going on? And we can fix it too. We really can.

Please if you read my blog, see this movie. It's just that important.