An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Shocking, stunning and educational at the sametime. Forget about politics for a minute. What this book is about is the cause and effect the we humans are having on this planet. The book becomes into great and clear detail about many subjects like the results of greenhouse gases and the things that humans do to add to the problem and what we can do to help alleviate it somewhat. The book is usually filled with visually stunning time lapse photography that shows the powerful results of greenhouse gases with regard to the chain result of events that happen when a glacier starts to melt eventually causing the oceans to get warmer, killing the coral then the marine life the live off the coral and then inturn nearly killing off the sea life that feed off the things that live in the coral and so on. The ocean level rising due to glaciers slowly melting causing coastlines to change. the book has some very dramatic topographical maps detailing this, now look at pages 208 and 209 and see for instance how Manhattans coast line would change if the ocean rose just 20 feet which could more easily then I could have still thought happen. The book class of encapsulates the last few thousand years of this planet and shows the greatly accelerated destructive reaction the earth is having to mankind speeding through the industrialization of this planet over the last hundred years. Remember politics for a minute. There is some talk of politics in this book but it is not about Republican’s versus Democrat’s it’s about eventually coming together to find solutions to stop or at least slow the gruesome chain reaction. Paying attention to good technical facts is so important and the book stresses that point. Mr. Gore tells the things that he finally saw about the environment that usually made him re-think his stance on ecological issues and he talks about refocusing himself on the things that really matter in life like his family and the world he lives in. He talks about effectively making good natural choices now so that our children will also be able to enjoy this planet. The book to a smaller extent includes the health choices we make for our selves like eventually choosing not to smoke, eating healthfully. The irony to this though is that it touches on another point that he makes about the world quickly becoming over densely populated because people are possibly living longer and we are actually consuming more goods from factory’s that are effectively putting polution into the air. The book it’s self is very well written and the supporting documentation is great. It is geared to the usually lay person and easily understandable. It is about a one evening widely read but will provide a time of previously thought. I very highly recomend this book.