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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (66279)	5/4/2006 7:51:00 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361955

An Inconvenient Truth \| Alex Steffen Team Worldchanging got a chance to see a sneak preview of An Inconvenient Truth last night. We all left stunned. An Inconvenient Truth is mostly footage of Al Gore giving his now-famous lecture on why we know climate change is real, here and serious. It's not flashy, but AIT is the most important film of the year. We believe that this film will change the American debate on climate change, and that will change everything. This movie will change the American debate on climate, if people get a chance to see it. But in order for them to see it, it needs to do well its first weekend. If you are an American and read this site, it is your duty to go see this film the weekend it opens. Last weekend, the movie R.V. took in $16.4 million, making it the top-grossing film in America. That's not that much money: if every person who reads this blog went to see AIT on the opening weekend, and brought three friends, this film would very likely open as the number one film in the country -- and that means other theaters will show it, and more people will talk about it, and climate change may well wind up where it ought to be: at the top of our national agenda. (Obviously the third of us who live outside the US will have longer trips to the theater... but you get the point.) But why should Worldchangers, who have a variety of concerns, invest themselves in the success of a movie about carbon measurements, melting ice caps and worsening hurricanes? Al Gore himself answered that question at last night's screening: because the same frozen moral perspective that prevents us from addressing climate change makes us see all sorts of other planetary challenges -- from poverty to HIV/AIDS to genocide to corruption -- as insolvable problems, rather than as artifacts of a broken political system, problems we lack only the will, not the means, to solve. Somewhere, the ice jam has got to melt. Some time, we have to warm to the possibility of a future which is sustainable, prosperous and fair to all. An Inconvenient Truth may help build a bright green future. (Thanks to our friends at Climate Solutions and Participant!) worldchanging.com