Thursday, January 1, 2009

ITS TIME TO DO SOMETHING !!!

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.

With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point - and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective, to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most important cause of his life - convinced that there is still time to make a difference.

With wit, smarts and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization.
------------- An Extract from "An inconvineant Truth".

Our Genertion has the responsibility to initiate change.We are not very much behind the Americans in adding to global warming. As our population is highly increasing, our per-capita emmision of CO2 gasses, which in-turn leads to higher temperature levels in our country, is decreasing. On the face of it, our Per-capita emmisions, are completely misleading and if we have a look at the total CO2 emmisions, We are among the Top-10. America has already started to take action , their CFC levels and CO2 levels have dropped drastically. If every citizen, no matter which country he belongs to, takes some steps to prevent this Catastrophe, we can deal with CO2 emmision.


  • If we start conserving energy. By not using taxi's or Auto's or saving fuel by not using personal cars, we can use public transport. Say, u can do car-pooling.
  • We frequently use, hot water to take bath. If we can use warm water instead.It'll help the situation.
  • Turn Of electronic devices when not in use. You can turn of your monitor screens when you are'nt using your computer, or switch it of, rather than putting it in sleep-mode.
  • Using flourescent light bulb's rather than normal light bulb's, will save 150 pounds of CO2 per year.
  • Plant trees, now this dosent sound that difficult . Does it?.
  • Recycling.The more you recycle, the better it is.
  • Adjusting your thermostat, let it be extreme winter or summer. Adjust your thermostat in a range of, not more than 2 degrees.

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