Entry #8 - A Convenient Lie?

This week we talked about the environmental crisis and watched "The Inconvenient Truth".  When we were discussing the environmental crisis, I couldn't help but think of how our SL project was one of the ways that aims to help reduce the damage to our environment.  The electricity saved when using the PET bottles as a light source does not only benefit the wallets of the residents, but also reduces the use of fossil fuel to generate the electricity.  If people continue to expand this project, it might really be able to make a huge impact on the environment.

During the discussion, I suddenly thought about Earth Hour, or the time where everyone in the word shuts of his or her electricity-using things for an hour.  Aside from showing the effect of how “if one person does it and everybody does it, we can make a difference”, I thought about how helpless we would be without electricity.  With our advanced society, having no internet will already cause people to claim “they will die”; having no electricity will probably spell the death of most people. 

The film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is a film I have seen 4 to 5 times within my college and high school years combined.  Truth be told, I am sick of having to watch or discuss it.  What is interesting, was the film I saw during my SCIENVC class.  This was a film to disprove Al Gore’s film.  It disproved the global warming phenomenon and said that the climate change is merely a part of the Earth’s cycle, just like how the Ice Age came naturally.  After watching that, I have been a little bit skeptical of Al Gore ever since.  So I tried to research more about Al Gore’s film and there are really people who say that some of the statistics are used improperly and that the “Inconvenient Truth” is actually a convenient lie. 

This just made me realize that you can’t always trust what you see or hear from the media.  You always have to dig a little deeper to find out the truth.  I still believe that mankind is overusing our resources and that we have to reduce our pollution; but don’t just take it from one source.  In case you were wondering, I still believe that global warming is real, as I researched that the people who claim that Al Gore is a convenient liar, don’t have a reliable source of information either.  In the end, it is really up to you to decide what YOU want to believe in.