An Inconvenient Truth

It was a Saturday morning, I decided to write something I was eager to write. I can’t keep my mind off of what I saw.

Last night, Friday evening, I’ve watched a documentary entitle “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore. It was somehow shocking and at the same time keeps you wondering about how accurate the facts that he has shown in his documentary.

Al Gore was the running mate for Presidency in the US of Pres. George W. Bush. He was defeated in the last city they fought in, Florida. It was a close vote-race, Gore got 48% while Bush got 49% of the votes. That made Bush won the election. Al Gore was very known for his great seminars and slide shows and one of the many well known work of Gore was the documentary mentioned above.

The whole documentary talks about GLOBAL WARMING! When these two words come to our mind and senses, we tend to picture it out as the melting of the ice caps around the world, which is true! He said that if the whole Antarctica would melt, it would create a vast amount of water increase in the whole world, up until 20ft. from its current sea level, the same as with the entire Greenland, if it’s going to melt.

This alone alarms me!

Almost half of the entire Netherlands would be covered with water if this is going to happen and the twin towers where the 9/11 terror attack happened, which they now call Ground zero (0), would also be submerged under water. Thinking about this scene can really be so disturbing in some cases, but according to Gore, it’s the fact and we should be ready for it if we are not going to take actions now.

Billion of thousand refuges would be evacuating, and where do you think we can put them? What a nice question. The hurricane Katrina, caused a lot of trouble in the US, Global Warming is much more complicated to describe.

What about us? How about the Philippines?

Gore said that most countries near the equator wont be that affected due to the fact that the so called “Ocean Conveyor” or shall we say it simply, the “Oceans Current System”, or the movement of the water of the entire globe is greatly happening near the equator, thus, prevent those countries near the equator from too much damage than those who are far from it. I may be wrong about this, but this is how I understand it and I’m hoping I am though it would be very great if none of these are true.

It was a nice eye-opener when I watched the documentary. It made me aware of the great damage that we are doing to our mother nature. It made me realize about the things that we are taking for granted that was given by earth. It made me realize that I was AFRAID.

“Separating the truth from the fiction and the accurate connections from the misunderstandings is part of what you learned here.” – this was what Gore said we he gave a speech in presenting his documentary to a group of youth in Japan, and that’s exactly what I came to realize as I was watching the entire documentary. The facts were so believable that Gore even gathered data from the National Defense, as what he said.

“When the warnings are accurate, and based on sound science, then we as human beings, whatever country we live in, have to find ways to make sure that the warnings are heard and responded to.” - This was Al Gore’s answer when someone asked on what we can do in our current situation now.

Stopping pollutions is part of the response that Gore was talking about. I myself is a great contributor to this tragedy. No one is exempted.

It’s your call now on how you are going to respond to this situation and hope the very best it would be profitable for the entire human race.

God be with us.