- an inconvenient truth, indeed -

our company gave free movie tickets for this al gore flick ... we were having second thoughts about going ... chireh and i even expected the film to be ... you know ... boring ... ho-hum ...

but after seeing the film, i'm glad that we gave it a chance ... we were glued to our seats the entire time ... all eyes and ears to al gore ... and it's not just because al gore is cute but because al gore are saying things that actually make sense ...

inconvenient truth talks about global warming and it highlights the changes from then and now ... increase in the impurities in our atmosphere ... more of the sun's heat trapped on earth ... earth's temperature continuously increasing ... polar ice caps melting ... flooding in one part of the earth ... drought on another part of the earth ... extreme weather changes ... recurrence of diseases ...

i used to be so apathetic about environmental issues ... i had this sooo incorrect notion that i have so little to do with it ... i felt that a "lowly" being like me doesn't have any impact on it ... it is only now that i realized that i am guilty - just like a lot of us are ...

i found some pictures online just to show how far we've gone in destroying the only planet that we can call home -

upsala glacier in argentina ... supposed to be covered with ice ... less than a century difference(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html)

drought in australia ... causing deaths of farm animals ... (http://www.dwpicture.com.au/gallery.asp?cat2=Drought&cat3=Drought%20Scenes&cat=Drought%20Scenes&cat3_number=53)

slash and burn agriculture in peru (http://travel.mongabay.com/pix/peru/manu-Manu_1024_2892.html)

destruction from hurricane katrina (http://www.katrinadestruction.com/images/v/biloxi_mississippi/)

storm aftermath in the philippines (http://my_sarisari_store.typepad.com/)

so there ... what can we do about it? ... drive less and take the mrt ... you can also walk and ride a bike instead ... recycle more ... conserve natural resources ... and the list goes on ... want to know more??? ... then go visit this website - http://climatecrisis.org/ ... and even if i won't get any penny from it - i would also recommend that you watch "an inconvenient truth" ...