The documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, in which former Vice President Al Gore explains the current “climate crisis” and how Australia must sign the Kyoto Protocol to stop global warming, last night won an Oscar Award for best documentary film.
The Oscars are awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and considered the most presitigous and most watched film awards ceremony in the world.
The director of 'An Inconvenient Truth', Davis Guggenheim, took the film’s star Al Gore on stage to accept the award with Mr Gore declaring:
“My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis.
"It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue.
"We have everything we need to get started with the possible will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it."
Mr Guggenheim said he and the film crew were so inspired by Al Gore’s fight for 30 years to tell this truth on global warming.
I’m not sure that Al Gore was all that truthful in the film or that it is a moral issue. I wrote a column for the ABC radioCounterpoint program last year in which I suggested global warming was more a technological than a moral issue. There are related
According to CBS News reporting on last night Oscar Award's ceremony:
“Earlier in the evening Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio took the stage to unveil a series of efforts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took to make this year's awards more environmentally friendly…
“Oscar ballots were made from partially recycled paper and organic produce was served at the Governor's Ball. The academy joined with the Natural Resources Defense Council to reduce energy usage and increase recycling.
“Other initiatives included rides for presenters and stars in hybrid vehicles. The academy said it had explored hydrogen-powered fuel cell buses to transport crew and other workers, but did not have enough time to do it this year."
I'm surprised they didn't just pay someone to plant a few trees to "off-set" the night.
Julian, a green, has finally discovered grey, along with black and white, and now boorishly preaches his new gospel to those who have always known 30 shades. Well when you have introduced the concept to the rest of the green movement, let me know.
Perhaps Julian for Ian it's become:
Oh yeah life goes on
Long after the thrill of livin is gone
Oh yeah they say life goes on
Long after the thrill of livin is gone
He walks on.
Explains things well. Gee come to think of it maybe Ian's gone all sepo sympathetic. eeekkk. I knew he'd sold out our national position on whales. If this keeps up he's gonna have to match down the back on property rights demos.
again Ian, all very 2-dimensional ways to view the world. funnily enough, i'd be quite happy to know that everyone got it wrong about AGW, and that the world was going to be fine as it is, but unlike you im not pinning my happiness on this hope (or something worse - god will save us).
i live in the real world - i could introduce you to it some day, but im not sure you'd enjoy a non binary world with varying shades of grey, where there is more to life than good vs evil, capitalists vs commies and greenies vs farmers.
All of Julian's certainties are about to turned upside down by a tiny bit of mayhem. There is a neat, tidy and certain world that is full of self evident truths prior to parenthood.
And then there is the real world. The one that the Bob Browns of this world will never know. Where compromise is is not a sell-out, where the most sensuous reward you can give to your partner is a good sleep-in, where you discover that the unique and special person you thought you were is just the same as billions of others just like you.
It is, as JK Mellancamp sang, a "little ditty about Jack and Dianne, two (aussie) kids doing the best that they can, oh yes, life goes on .."
And a tiny little human that is completely dependent on him will look up and unlock a door in his mind, and he will never again regard humanity as a disease.
Jim
morality depends on what we know, and what we know comes from science and other disciplines.
If the science is saying humanity will be subject to extreme conditions for living, then they have to tell us what they fear will happen. Not to do so would be immoral.
Hi Jennifer and all, this film is more aptly named - an unfinished title.
For instance 'The inconvenient truth IS' that coal is formed in swamps and swamps worldwide have been drained creating a cost effective carbon storing opportunity.
Restoring wetlands has many economic "fish production, water filtration etc." benefits in addition to storing carbon.
Leasing land for wetland restoration ($20 -$300 per hectare per annum) for carbon storage is a more precautionary approach - a safer investment - than trying to store CO2 from gas for instance, especially if global warming science turns out to be fertiliser and burning coal inconsequential to climate change.
1000 hectares of 'matured' swampland could lay down a heap of peat in a year and require little or no management.
Cheers Bob McDonald