As an educator in high school I was forced (politely coerced) to display this to my students. It was excruciating.
I consider myself an environmentalist. Having lived next to the ocean in Southern California, I have seen, over the decades, an increase in pollution along the coast. Therefore, I am very sensitive to our civilization's dire impact on what not so long ago was as pristine as it was when it first came into existence.
Enter the narcissist Gore who makes a documentary that's supposed to be scientific. I had my doubts then for the lack of scientists interviewed to substantiate his premise: that global warming is the result of human action. Now, (2009) an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that there is absolutely no reliable data that verifies any global warming at all.
Why make up such claims when there is enough concrete proof to document man's blatantly reckless abuse of the earth? The answer, some will argue, is an attempt to hastily dissuade environmental destructiveness and discourage capitalistic endeavor. But to do so with a depiction of a very cute, computer generated polar bear cub drowning in an ice-less, arctic sea, is imagery for the very naïve, and despicably, propaganda directed at the very young.
This, and an occasional interruption that chronicled Gore's personal defeat in his presidential election bid, caused me great embarrassment for him, myself and my school, and for the entire teaching profession in America. To think such a clown actually won the popular vote. . . and a Nobel Peace prize.
I am sure a more scientific and persuasive endeavor can be produced to reveal civilization's impact on the earth. Gore's film only does harm to a very important issue.
I consider myself an environmentalist. Having lived next to the ocean in Southern California, I have seen, over the decades, an increase in pollution along the coast. Therefore, I am very sensitive to our civilization's dire impact on what not so long ago was as pristine as it was when it first came into existence.
Enter the narcissist Gore who makes a documentary that's supposed to be scientific. I had my doubts then for the lack of scientists interviewed to substantiate his premise: that global warming is the result of human action. Now, (2009) an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that there is absolutely no reliable data that verifies any global warming at all.
Why make up such claims when there is enough concrete proof to document man's blatantly reckless abuse of the earth? The answer, some will argue, is an attempt to hastily dissuade environmental destructiveness and discourage capitalistic endeavor. But to do so with a depiction of a very cute, computer generated polar bear cub drowning in an ice-less, arctic sea, is imagery for the very naïve, and despicably, propaganda directed at the very young.
This, and an occasional interruption that chronicled Gore's personal defeat in his presidential election bid, caused me great embarrassment for him, myself and my school, and for the entire teaching profession in America. To think such a clown actually won the popular vote. . . and a Nobel Peace prize.
I am sure a more scientific and persuasive endeavor can be produced to reveal civilization's impact on the earth. Gore's film only does harm to a very important issue.