Watched Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" last night as part of my research on environmental issues that the world faces. Although now this film is quite dated (it was released in 2005), a lot was still relevant. It helped in my general understanding to the science behind what's causing global warming and the effects that it has on the planet in terms of increasing natural disasters, rise in the planets temperature and what the political attitudes towards global warming were at the time. It also explained the technologies that we are in possession of to combat global warming.
However, there has been a lot of controversy around this documentary, with a lot of politicians, scientists and people of the general public debating that his "facts" given in this documentary are in fact, fiction. Although it is a biased view to one side of the global warming issue, it has, none the less, helped me in figuring out what's going on in the politics of environmentalism and what issues everyone needs to be made aware of.
One thing I really took from this, that I think will help narrow down what I discuss in my extended essay is that politics and education hold the power to change this horrible situation we've got ourselves into.
An Inconvenient Truth, 2006 [DVD], Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender Productions
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