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Al Gore, the well-known politician that nearly became president of the United
States, made an incredible film about the global warming. An inconvenient truth is a documentary film. Al Gore, relying on graphics, videos, and his own past and memories, tells us the future of the earth as it is speculated by the scientists. According to what Al Gore says, there probably won’t be any more an ice cap on the north hemisphere of our planet. That is, what we call North Pole will disappear. The most incredible in what he says, is that everything he maintains is based on scientific studies. We always think that this kind of information is just a tale to scary us and make us react; but it’s not. It’s just the truth. As the trailer says: “Nothing is scarier than the truth”. Al Gore shows the temperature curves obtained studying the ice of the poles. The temperature always stayed between a maximum and a minimum, including during the Ice Ages. But nowadays, the temperature went out of the normal curve, and its average is twice higher than a century ago. Moreover, it will continues like this and the temperature average in 2050 will be again twice higher than today.Despite he tells worrying things, Al Gore does it with humor. For instance, when he asks the question: “Why don’t we react?”, he answered it giving the example of a frog. If we take a frog and plunge it into hot water, the animal will jump out of the bowl. Now, if we plunge it into warm water, the frog will stay in the bowl. And if we increase the temperature of the water little by little, the frog will still stay in the bowl, until someone save it from a certain death. We are like this frog. If the things deteriorate little by little, we won’t react until we’ll be dead or until it will be too late.So Al Gore gives a message: react! If everybody does something, we can avoid catastrophes like Katrina, that Al Gore associate with the meteorological problems caused by the global warming. A great part of the Co2 emissions (and Al Gore says that theses emissions are responsible for the global warming) are caused by the private transports. We always think: “I don’t need to do anything, because my efforts won’t make any difference. We are six billion (and more) on the Earth, and I’m one of theses six billions.” But it’s wrong; all of us must react, and the result will be there.What should we do according to Al Gore?First, we must try to walk or use bike every time it’s possible, instead of using our cars. Cars pollute, bike don’t. Anyway, walking is good for the health.Secondly, we should never be alone in our cars. If someone takes with him four people, instead of five vehicles polluting there will be one.…There are many others things we can do. So let’s do them!
“The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth.”(Chief Seattle)
