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To: Lane3 who wrote (21482)	6/19/2006 4:43:28 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541933

Depends what you mean by ability and future. If ability means all versus nothing in terms of an ability to live at all, then it's an exaggeration- if ability means competence to live on the planet in comfort, or as we have been living on it, then it probably isn't. If future means "a future of any sort" then it's an exaggeration, but if it means an optimal future, or a future not involving serious effects from global warming, then it isn't. The polar bears may all die (the wild ones), I got that from the movie (and actually I don't think he even said that- but he did talk about the fact that they are drowning now, since they can't find ice when they set out on their swims- and that isn't something people have seen before, hence the impression that they may be doomed)- but Gore never suggested all humans would- and humans living on is a future. The gloomiest scenario in the movie was the possible flooding of low lying highly populated areas in India and China (areas of Shanghai and Calcutta if I remember right), and the potential refugee problems. That's hardly an End Of Days prospect. Unpleasant, to be sure, but end of the future? I don't think so.