An Inconvenient Response

Section 1: Personal Impact

For me, An Inconvenient Truth was a bit of an eye-opener. I already saw global warming as a fact and as a problem, but Al Gore’s extensive work shows that it is much, much more. The most memorable parts include the clip from Futurama, explaining what global warming is, and the first graph he put up, that showed natural warming for thousands and thousands of years, going up and down slowly and steadily, and then the past 50 years. It came as quite a shock, and it should help him get the message across nicely. Also, the fact that giant masses of ice can be destroyed as quickly as he told us, and the affect that it has on us is very scary. A lot of the solutions that Al told us about do seem very difficult to put to work, as using extensive amounts of resources is just what we do, every day. I think we can dramatically slow the warming down, but, at the moment, it doesn’t look like we can help ourselves very much now.

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Section 2: Deepening the Learning

Mainly, what I learned from An Inconvenient Truth was how quickly this is happening. Huge masses of ice can be destroyed in a matter of weeks, and the atmosphere is getting destroyed at an alarming rate. This film has given me enough evidence that it is all real, because temperatures are higher than ever, at the same time as the carbon emissions are skyrocketing, because of all of the human habits, like burning coal and oil, and using very large amounts of energy. I would like to hear some more proper scientists going public about the matter, but I am sold because it is such a widely believed thing, and there is just so much evidence to back it all up. I, like a lot of other people don’t pay too much attention to everything, like the small details and I just believe convincing looking graphs. Of course, some people who are looking at global warming in many different ways, and have been for a very long time would be the right people to trust.

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Section 3: Moral and Future Considerations

My personal values and morals already included some stuff about sustainability and environment, this movie has just confirmed it all in my mind. The movie has somewhat made global warming more of an issue and a value for me. The economic system largely relies on things that are bad for the environment. In Australia, if something were to go wrong with the mining system, the economy would suffer greatly. In order for the economic system to work, we need to keep these things up, unless we stop relying on mining and oil so much. There are some roadblocks in making change to save us from too much global warming. The whole world relies on things that are bad for the environment. There would be millions of jobs lost, and an unimaginable amount of money lost if we were to stop all environmentally unfriendly activity, not to mention people being completely lost and not knowing how to live anymore. Our style of life relies on things that are destroying the world. If everyone were to be completely honest, they would say that they could live without some of the ridiculous things, or do small things like consuming less, but as I have said, we rely too much on these things and would be completely lost without them. If we want to make a difference, the leaders for our counties should all see this film, and so should people deeply involved in things that are bad for the earth, like mining executives. Of course, lots of people should see this, but everyone that does watch An Inconvenient Truth should make sure they understand everything said, otherwise, it could be interpreted wrongly or wasted. If this could happen, there would be much more awareness of the problem, and we would be much closer to a solution.

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