Screwing the Planet: A Global Warning

I just finished to see another movie, one that would make difficult to sleep tonight. It not an horror movie, but it does forsee a possible scenario wher Erath will be devastated. Is not a commercial movie, but a documentary, one that probably most people in USA have heard of: An Inconvinent truth, by Al Gore.

Now I know that Mr. Gore has been receiving tons of critics lately due the fact that flying is polluting and he has been doing it a lot. But that doesn't means that he is wrong. The message of his slideshow is clear, we are going straight to hell (literally) and we are running out of timeto push the brakes. No one in the planet can reduce to zero his/her environmental print (unless is dead and even then...), but can be reduced significantly, so Mr. Gore is probably compensating the CO2 from his travels by other means.

Going to the topic of the movie, probably one of the mental images that made me more sad now that in years before, was the polar bears drowning because the North Pole is close to be a large pool. Think on this, just because some Oil magnates want to change his carpet in his mansion, he made you to consume more fuel. This is in agreement with the automobile industry (at leats the american one), that says that only by manufacturing bigger cars, they can compite with other companies (which is a lie since most of american car companies are in big troubles) they can keep the economy, so they offer you only cars that can burn more fuel in one day that all of your medieval ancestor in all his life span.

So we are killing polar bears just because a bunch of fucking greed bastards want more money than they will be able to take with them to the tomb. Is that fair? And in case some of the readers don't care about polar bears, monarch butterflies or penguins, I just want to remember two things: Hurrican Katrina obliterating New Orleans and the Tsunami in South Asia (remember my last post about superstorms not being feasible? Guess what? Katrina was just the sample). If they death of thousands of people and the thousands of displaced survivors with the raising potential of new and old diseases cleaning those zones in a war-zone like scene doens't make you to change or at least consider the issue, hell is a worthy place.

Why hell? Because with the raising of the temperatures in an exponential way (more in the last generation than in all human history), that is what we are transforming Earth into. Don't let politicians to confuse you: there is a general consensus among scientifics that Global Warming is real. Politicans just want to misdirect your attention because it hits them where it hurts: their pockets.

I can go and go and go in this subject and I probably will, since is the topic of my PhD and something I take very serious. But I will save more bullets for tomorrow (when I will post some links with advices of how to reduce you environmental print). Just wanted to finish saying that we are in the last meters of a global destruction race, but we can still change the direction, we have the tools, the knowledge , we just need the will to do it.