A bi-partisan training program to spread the truth about what we have reaped upon our world. Good idea on the part of Al Gore, but only if this truth is also spread in areas where people will not have access to seeing the movie. I also wonder about the poorer neighborhoods in our country and how much a part they will have in all of this.
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Gore to train 1,000 to spread word about climate
A bi-partisan training program to spread the truth about what we have reaped upon our world. Good idea, but only if this truth is also spread in areas where people will not have access to seeing the movie. I also wonder about the poorer neighborhoods in our country. Will they be able to participate in even being trained to do this? I would love to be one of those who is trained to do this (and would add in slides showing the devastation of the current global water crisis/water wars we face also,) but I couldn't go to Nashville to learn it. My finances won't allow me to, and I have a family and a job. How then can those of us committed to this issue who have other priorities as well learn this? Would we have to go to Nashville, or would this training come to us?
This is a really good start to spreading awareness, and I truly hope it catches on. However, I too have to concede as Mr. Gore did in this article that human nature may once again kick in and just with any concept, once the newness of it wears off people tend to lose interest and fall back into their old patterns. There will then have to be a hook to keep people committed to this cause once they are exposed to this truth.
We have seen in years past and even with Earth In The Balance coming out, that people of all politics read the book and then moved on. Politicians on all sides of the aisle didn't even heed it. The media for the most part was cool towards it, even though it too was on the NY Times bestseller list. So what is the hook now? Only that all of this may lead to a run in our toxic system by him? And what if that doesn't happen? You can't base this entire campaign to save our planet on 2008 and a political pipe dream. I personally believe Mr. Gore is shooting for something that far surpasses any political campaign here, expresssly because he knows the lack of results it got in the past.
So how do we reach those who are so preoccupied with simply suriving their daily lives regarding this issue? How do we reach those who work two and three jobs whose only worry now is making the bills so the car they must drive to work isn't repossessed? This idea while good will also most certainly appeal to the let's face it, "elitist" environmental crowd who can afford to take part in it. What of those of us who are not in those circles? There are also people in this country who can't afford to go see the movie or buy the book. How do they fit into all of this?
I am sure Mr. Gore has thought about this, and I am going to share my thoughts on this with his office. He also must know that scientists claim the climate crisis will effect the poor in our world more than any other group even though they do not contribute as much to it. It then must be those poor throughout the world who benefit from this information. That is why I have wrote a letter to his office to ask if there is any way he can also show this movie at the UN, or if there is any way he can do his slide presentation there. That would be one way for him to reach the entire world in one presentation.
I personally believe that once the movie has also made its run in the theatres, that it should be shown for free in public schools and venues around this country, especially in poorer neighborhoods. People could also be enlisted in those neighborhoods to hand out flyers and talk to businesses in those neighborhoods about carbon neutrality and incentives for their businesses to do it. I would be more than happy to do that in my own community and have been passing our flyers about this crisis already. Greening neighborhoods one by one with the incentive to bring economic benefit to those communities to make them grow as well, and educating the poorest people in our country and the world on this issue and other issues that are effected by it to bring necessary change are in my view the major steps we need to take to get this going.
I am grateful Mr. Gore has decided to take this on. It is time, and I am ready to help in any way I can. I know from the conference call Moveon.org gave last Sunday that I was a part of, that Mr. Gore had stated that he would think about setting up something with them passing the information along. Only again, not all are hooked up to Moveon.org, so I hope there will be other ways that information will get out to the public in general. And even if we can't take part in this effort by Mr. Gore, we surely have enough information at our fingertips to be our own environmental messenger. That I believe is the main point of An Inconvenient Truth: It is up to us.