Watching An Inconvenient Truth is more useful for understanding how
propaganda is made and used than for understanding the risks of global
warming (I am not qualified to judge the scientific evidence here -- I
am assuming that Gore's presentation on global warming is sound).
The fundamental lie that Al Gore is telling comes from defining our
problem as environmental - in this case global warming - whereas our
environmental problems - as real and important as they are - are but a
symptom of the problem, not the problem. Gore defines our problem as
"what." He is silent on "who." For example, Gore does not ask or answer:
- Who is doing this?
- Who has been governing our planet this way and why?
- Cui bono? Who benefits?
- Who has suppressed alternative technologies resulting in our
dependency on fossil fuels? Why?
- Who has generated how much financial capital generated from this
damage?
- How did things get this bad without our changing? How much was related
to fear of and dirty tricks of those in charge?
- How do we recapture resources that have been criminally drained and
use them to invest in restoring environmental balance?
Utah Phillips once said, "The earth is not dying. It is being killed,
and the people killing it have names and addresses." In one sentence,
Utah Phillips told us more about global warming than Al Gore has told us
in a lifetime of writing and speaking, let alone in An Inconvenient
Truth.
Needless to say, Gore offers no names and addresses. Gore's "who"
discussion is limited to population. He seems to imply that the issue is
the growth in population combined with busy people being shortsighted,
leading to some giant incompetency "accident." That makes it easy to
avoid digging into the areas that would naturally follow from starting
with "who" – which should lead to dissecting the relationship between
environmental deterioration and the prevailing global investment . . .
The planet is being run by people who are intentionally killing it.
Their power is their ability to offer all of us ways of making money by
helping them kill it. Hence, understanding how the mechanics of the
financial system and the accumulation of financial capital relate to
environmental destruction is essential. . .
For example, there is no place on Gore’s time line that shows:
- the creation of the Federal Reserve;
- the movement of currencies away from the gold standard;
- the growth of non-accountable fiat currency systems;
- the growth of consumer, mortgage and government debt;
- the growth in the superior rights of corporations over people and
living things;
- the growth of "privatization"
- the subversive and sometimes violent suppression of renewable energy,
housing and transportation technologies and innovations;
- the growth of the offshore financial system and the use of that system
to launder and accumulate vast sums of pirated capital. . .
The documentary ends with a long list of things that we can do. Many of
these items are on my list. We all need to come clean in the process of
evolving towards sustainability. However, without a new investment model
and the governance changes that automatically follow, the result of An
Inconvenient Truth is to teach us to be good consumers of global oil and
consumer product corporations and banks and -- we are supposed to
intuitively understand -- vote for Al Gore or the candidates he
endorses.
Gore draws us down a rabbit hole, which leaves us even more dependent on
the people and institutions that created and profited from the problem
in the first place. . .
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Here is a comment from a respected friend, who is a teacher and active environmentalist who has lived "off the grid" for years....................PEACE................Scott
Scott,
Ms Fitts criticism of Gore's film is as bizarre and baseless as I've seen;
perhaps she can sign up a short course on Film 101! If she really wanted
Gore's answers to her questions, he would be happy to provide them . . . at
great length!
Perhaps a more salient "hidden lie" in Gore's presentation is his own
resource consumptive lifestyle.
Ed
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