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To: epicure who wrote (21452)	6/19/2006 3:31:50 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541965

Bailey's article is entirely consistent with what I observed for myself seeing the preview, which was prepared by the people who want everybody to see the movie from snippets of the actual movie, for example, graphic representations of much of the inhabited world being inundated by rising ocean water. I have no intention of seeing the movie. If that means I shouldn't comment on it, that's fair and I won't. But I can still post articles about it, and will. I'm not really interested in the movie, per se. I'm interested in the facts and ideas.

To: epicure who wrote (21452)	6/19/2006 4:45:17 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541965

Message 22556196 Edit - In reply to Message 22556368 "To have a future as a civilization", doesn't mean "to live at all", but it also doesn't mean "to have a very good future", or "to have as good of future as I would like". If we don't have a future as a civilization that would mean that civilization would end in the relatively near future. Gore made statements along those same extreme lines in at least one interview. It could be that Bailey is misapplying the remarks to the movie and Gore doesn't make them in the movie. If so that is a mark against Bailey's review (if Gore had never made remarks along those lines it would be even a strong mark against the review), because Bailey implies that he did. If he knew Gore made the quoted comment ("what is at stake [is] our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization.") in another context but not in the movie he should at least say something like "Gore has been quoted as saying", or "in other context Gore said", to remove the implication that the statements where made in the movie. A question to anyone who has seen the movie - Does Gore make that comment in the movie?