Dare I admit it, I'm irritated Al Gore's Power Point presentation, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Oscar last night. As informative as this movie is about Global Warming, the solutions it offers are ridiculous. A former Vice-President, who made neither a jot nor tiddle of difference in the second-highest ranking office in the country regarding global warming, has the audacity to argue that turning off your light bulbs and supporting "good willed" political candidates are adequate solutions. He fails to say "stop driving your goddamned murder machine fueled by the deaths of future generation" and instead says "drive less" and "drive hybrids." Was his limo a hybrid? Even so, how many fossil fuels did it take to build it? Why didn't he ride a bike instead? What coal-fired power plants were used to generate the electricity to run his nifty presentations?
The fact is, nothing short of industrial collapse can get us out of this capitalist mess. Even then, we're probably screwed. While Gore's movie fairly represents the horror we are facing, it fails to present valid solutions. It's just one more political tapdance as the earth implodes. As Gore drives around in a limo and flies on airplanes, wasting fossil fuels, we all get a sense of just how serious this rich, oil investor is about solving global warming through personal solutions. He'd be better off recommending that people take out the infrastructure that runs this ecologically genocidal industrial economy than being one more rich white guy telling average people that Global Warming is their fault.
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