AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH- NOT POPCORN TIME!

After veiwing the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth ' last night I feel rather exhausted to say the least. It's not a movie you buy popcorn to watch because the state of the planet is not entertaining. Al gore says several times in the movie that he initially believed that scientific evidence alone would be enough to get people into action. But no, not even close. There is a wonderful cartoon example of why this is so. A frog hopping into a beaker of boiling water hops out imediately, but the same frog hopping into a beaker of cold water which is heated very slowly just sits there and in fact never gets out until it is rescued. If you were told that in ten years a big monster is going to get you, its likely you panic at first and make some plans. But after the initial shock wears off, well, ten years is so far away. Why waste time worrying about it now when yoy can enjoy your life. In your ninth year you can go back and prepare.
He explained that so many people when they finally comprehend the terrible state of things go straight from ignorance to dispair with not one shred of action in between.
Not me, I want to quadruple my humble efforts. I was surprised then, straight aftyer the movie when my friends discussed finally putting in those energy efficient globes. Is that it I thought? Yeah do that and about sixty other things.
Just before the planet as we know it goes down the toilet, people will remember the evidence given of all that was to come and people will say- "Yeah, I saw that movie too. "