I watched Al Gore’s "slide show/movie/lecture" on “global warning”, I mean, “global warming”... and oh man, I thought he touched thousands if not millions of hearts and minds, because he definitely touched mine, and my heart and mind cannot be easily touched. (Laughs)
“Yeah, seriously I hope everybody will watch it.”
This summer of 2007 have just ended but we saw and felt record temperatures all over the world. Here in Japan, I thought that was the hottest summer ever. From it, I can’t stop myself from imagining and asking; “What if in the trend continues in the next 50 years? What will happen to Earth?” Then I got scared.
The way Mr. Gore explained about the slow but steady change and our inability to react, (just like that frog - must watch the DVD to know what i mean), and to think about the consequences that are big and abrupt was just scary. Killer hurricanes and sea levels going up by 20 feet, wow, it almost made me think of not buying real state next to the ocean. (Chuckles) “There goes my dream house… flooded, consumed by the sea.”
Another interesting issue that will set us away a little from the current and more important issue of global warming is the political concern of this movie. Through it, there is an obvious political battle on the “push and pulls” and the economic effect of using gas, oil prices and the current Bush Administration. The current US President, Mr. Bush is a “friend” to oil nations and we are talking of billions of dollars of loses to these oil producing nations if overall world consumption of automotive fuels is cut even by fifty percent. Wow, Saudi Arabia must really be mad to Toyota right now for pioneering the hybrid energy car.
Anyway, I would want to say more but I will just encourage everyone to watch this movie now, so as not to waste time and act now to help save Earth, I will stop this blog here and start doing whatever I can do to help, maybe plant more trees.
“Yeah, seriously I hope everybody will watch it.”
This summer of 2007 have just ended but we saw and felt record temperatures all over the world. Here in Japan, I thought that was the hottest summer ever. From it, I can’t stop myself from imagining and asking; “What if in the trend continues in the next 50 years? What will happen to Earth?” Then I got scared.
The way Mr. Gore explained about the slow but steady change and our inability to react, (just like that frog - must watch the DVD to know what i mean), and to think about the consequences that are big and abrupt was just scary. Killer hurricanes and sea levels going up by 20 feet, wow, it almost made me think of not buying real state next to the ocean. (Chuckles) “There goes my dream house… flooded, consumed by the sea.”
Another interesting issue that will set us away a little from the current and more important issue of global warming is the political concern of this movie. Through it, there is an obvious political battle on the “push and pulls” and the economic effect of using gas, oil prices and the current Bush Administration. The current US President, Mr. Bush is a “friend” to oil nations and we are talking of billions of dollars of loses to these oil producing nations if overall world consumption of automotive fuels is cut even by fifty percent. Wow, Saudi Arabia must really be mad to Toyota right now for pioneering the hybrid energy car.
Anyway, I would want to say more but I will just encourage everyone to watch this movie now, so as not to waste time and act now to help save Earth, I will stop this blog here and start doing whatever I can do to help, maybe plant more trees.
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