An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

[I sent this last week to the wrong e-mail address. So now you're
getting a two-fer from me.]

Too much personal Al Gore stuff. While I have nothing against the guy
(and, given his obvious commitment to the issue, I would be happy if
he somehow found his way to the presidency as a result of it),
transitioning back and forth from glacier before-and-after pictures to
the speaker's childhood on a ranch is jarring and distracting, and
dilutes the focus of the film. Instead of being a sobering, objective
look at the environment's trajectory, it takes on the flavor of a
campaign stump speech.

My opinion of "saving" the environment was shaped by, of all things,
Jurassic Park (the novel, not the film). I couldn't quote it
directly to save my life, but the scientist Ian Malcolm expresses his
belief that the situation should be re-framed, not as a race to save
"nature" or the environment, but a race to save the future of human
life. "Nature," in one form of life or another, will survive whatever
we do to screw up the climate, An asteroid striking the Earth didn't
end life, although it did drastically alter the climate and end the
dinosaurs. So with everything we're doing that's wrong right now,
we're only hurting ourselves; the fatalistic question is whether
people care enough about the future of people to act now. We all know
we should care, but do we?

Also, if we blow it and humans all die, who's gonna take over in 65
million years? Anyone see A Sound of Thunder? Giant
gorilla-lizards would be awesome.