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Sunshine Superman, 13 June 2006

Author: dunmore_ego from Los Angeles, California

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We're gonna die.

That seems to be the main thrust of Al Gore's symposium on sunshine and line graphs.

Woiking that Power Point mean machine like a Marketing Manager Gone Wild, the man who used to be "the next President of the United States" assails us with facts, figures and forecasts in *An Inconvenient Truth*, outlining possibly the most dangerous threat to our way of life since Dubya took the oath: global warming.

In a compelling and easy to understand presentation, Mr. Gore's accumulated data illustrates how mankind's mass-production technology, coupled with bloating populations, has brought an artificial imbalance to an ecosystem which has been naturally balanced for billions of years, and is nothing short of an indictment against our wastefulness and shortsightedness.

Analogous to Toffler's *Future Shock* (where successive generations are inundated with superseding technology faster than they can assimilate it), the shockwave of industrialization has attained a critical mass.

Humans could never hope to actually "destroy the planet"; regarding Earth purely as a space rock, it will prevail, but - as Gore puts it - "the earth and our civilization are at war"; the key word being "civilization," i.e., the luxurious existence we take for granted.

Fully realizing he can only squash so much harbingering into 100 minutes, Gore (who has given this presentation thousands of times across the country) focuses on the end results of decades of scientific studies, keeping it succinct and vital, with short asides on how his personal life slots into his crusade (to earn him substance that a mere lobbyist stance alone will not).

Director Davis Guggenheim exerts a steady hand over the proceedings, re-discovering the beneficial uses of this medium which is so overtly misused. Yet even as we sit being educated, economic gears grind in adjacent theaters screening da Cruises, da Wolverines and da Vincis. You may not exit *Truth* as breathlessly as you may exit *X-Men: The Last Stand*, but you will be just as shaken.

(Read this unabridged review at: www.poffysmoviemania.com/AnInconvenientTruth.html)

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