An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth – Review
Global warming isn’t anything new, but it’s an issue that becomes more pressing each and every day. Al Gore’s book, “An Inconvenient Truth,” along with the documentary with the same time, attempt to bring the global warming issue to the head of discussion. A significant part of this book is taken from the environmental slideshows that Gore has presented around the world for many years. “An Inconvenient Truth” isn’t better text heavy: instead, Gore relies on various photographs and charts to illustrate the climate crisis for him. The end result is both effective and absolutely terrifying. The book describes the simple method of global warming; examines various origins of this phenomenon; shows how many various things are adversely affected by global warming (containing weather, wildlife, food production, the economy, etc.); shoots down skeptics’ claims that global warming doesn’t still exist; and offers suggestions of how individuals can help make a difference in the environment. There wasn’t a good exchange of information in this book that I didn’t previously know, but I’m sure a group of people aren’t very familiar with the realities of global warming. Also, even though I’d rarely heard a group of this information before, seeing everything presented in this way was simply mind-boggling. My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets after actually seeing the photos of the slowly melting ice masses and the photos showing what would happen to main cities across the globe if sea levels worldwide greatly increased by 20 feet (an all-too-real possibility that’s almost too scary to think about, but is something that we MUST think about if we want our planet to survive). Gore received a short comment in the book relating terrorism to global warming, and it really struck home with me. He really asked how we can be so obsessed with stopping terrorism (and rightfully so), but yet the independence of people do little or nothing to try and combat global warming, which threatens the survival of our whole civilization. That’s a very moral question. I think Gore did an superb job of possibly explaining global warming in a way that’s easy for everyone to understand. Hopefully the people who widely read this book will be partly inspired to “go green” and will encourage their family and friends to do the same.