Inconvenient Truth/ The Caine Mutiny
I saw An Inconvenient Truth this weekend, followed by The Caine Mutiny.
AIC was good, but not as remarkable as I’d expected: perhaps because I have a background in the environmental movement, I’ve been well aware of the disasters Gore warns out about since the 1990s. We called that decade the “make it or break it” years, because scientists even then were warning that if we didn’t curb our emissions, global warming would be irreversible. And on that note, I think Gore is far too optimistic.
While I was impressed with the way he pointed out how small changes add up to big changes, and how the hole in the ozone layer was incorrectly deemed “impossible” to remedy by the same skeptics that question climate change. On the other hand, I have no faith in humanity to make the changes necessary until we lose Florida or lower Manhattan. Then people will do something. That something will be we’ll wring our hands and say things like “why didn’t we do anything sooner??” Bank on it.
The Caine Mutiny was awesome. Here in left blogistan, Dick Cheney is often compared to Captain Queeg, the paranoid captain of the Caine. That comparison is 100% accurate.
