the best arguments made in An Inconvenient Truth?

[Bill McBlueState]

If you've seen An Inconvenient Truth, what specific points do you think it makes best?

For example -- I like how Gore emphasizes that there's money to be made in Earth-friendly innovation. Big business lackeys like to set up a false dichotomy of the environment or the economy. Think about that scale with the gold on one side and Earth on the other. And how Gore said mockingly, "Look at all those gold bricks. I'd love to have me some of those!"

But the companies who lead the way in innovative, Earth-friendly technology will actually be the big money-makers in the future. The ones who gripe and moan about "crippling environmental regulations" or whatever will deal with climate change just like the dinosaurs 60 million years before them did. Think of what will happen to the stock price of the company that rolls out the first affordable hybrid car, for example.

It's a good way to frame climate change for capitalists.

[bigmonkey]

1. The British Steel industry lost its lead at the turn of the last century

by similarly refusing to upgrade their technology. In the long run it never, never works to forestall adaptation by the exercise of power. Stupid.

[JHB]

5. Speaking of lost leads and failure to upgrade...

...It's time to remind some people that Reagan sold his tax cuts on the notion that the savings would be applied towards modernizing our aging industrial facilities -- and modernizing them HERE, not in Mexico or China, and shipping the jobs over there as well. Nor was it supposed to be for the big merger-fest that ensued.

[Bill McBlueState]

2. kick

anyone? anyone?

[kittenpants]

3. I love the argument that you mention--I also thought his story

about his family growing tobacco for awhile even after they knew it was harmful & then the death of his sister was a very moving analogy... that unfortunately most of us have to feel the negative effect of something directly before we get the message, but with global warming, we need to act now to prevent what's already beginning.

But the gold bars are pretty funny too & a perfect reality check for those who portray environmentalists as the ones disconnected from the real world. "Mmmm, sure would like to have some of those. Mmmm."

[dave29]

4. That this is a moral issue, not a political one.

Because he's absolutely right.

[AlGore-08.com]

6. That global warming is real, and it's the greatest threat we've ever faced

Gore and his movie have singlehandedly shifted the national debate from "Is Global Warming Real?" to "What Should We Do About Global Warming?".

[Red Right and BLUE]

7. I think the before-and-after photos say it best. eom