Tuesday, November 21
An Inconvenient Truth, packaged in (recycled) cardboard virtue
"The DVD of An Inconvenient Truth arrives in a recycled cardboard sleeve, the packaging equivalent of a penitent’s hair shirt. After all of the shots in Davis Guggenheim’s film of former U.S. vice president Al Gore sitting in airplanes and being chauffeured to lectures with a great expenditure of fossil fuel, it was obviously politic to dodge at least one bullet and launch the movie into the home video market cloaked in virtue.
"(...) While there’s nothing wrong with asking people to cut their energy consumption, is it healthy to insist that questioning Kyoto, or many of the assertions of climate change, is sinister, heretical, or both? Considering the many environmental catastrophes predicted within this reviewer’s own lifetime, most of them either averted or evaporated, isn’t it reasonable to doubt anyone who claims to be in possession of what they call 'truth,' inconvenient or not?"
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Rick tells me the hate mail is already pouring into his in box. I watched Britt Hume comment on the DVD package last week; it's one of the few times I've ever seen the veteran news anchor crack up on camera.
"(...) While there’s nothing wrong with asking people to cut their energy consumption, is it healthy to insist that questioning Kyoto, or many of the assertions of climate change, is sinister, heretical, or both? Considering the many environmental catastrophes predicted within this reviewer’s own lifetime, most of them either averted or evaporated, isn’t it reasonable to doubt anyone who claims to be in possession of what they call 'truth,' inconvenient or not?"
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Rick tells me the hate mail is already pouring into his in box. I watched Britt Hume comment on the DVD package last week; it's one of the few times I've ever seen the veteran news anchor crack up on camera.
