Carbon Planet DVD Reviews
Here are some interesting DVDs on global warming and climate change. You can find out more about a DVD at Amazon in a new window by clicking on it. If you purchase a DVD from Amazon through one of the links below, Carbon Planet will receive a small commission, which we'll use to buy more DVDs to review.
The Day After Tomorrow
This is Hollywood's global warming movie, and it doesn't do anything by halves. Not for this movie a slow increase in sea level. Instead, global warming causes an instant ice age and we get to see all the disasters that follow. The plot about a father slogging through ice and snow to reach his son is a bit lame, as is the dialogue, but the special effects are amazing, and at least this movie focused the public's attention on global warming for a few hours before they all drove home in their Hummers.
Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect
We found this in Amazon. We have no idea if it's any good. But it has an extremely relevant title, and listing it here means that we get to have more than one DVD in our DVD review section, which can't be a bad thing.
An Inconvenient Truth
I went along to a preview screening of An Inconvenient Truth tonight, obviously curious to see what has been dubbed by some as the “greatest slideshow on Earth”. Al Gore, who introduces himself as the former next US President, has been a passionate advocate of action in response to global warming for many decades. The film segues between autobiographical snippets and dramatic displays showing the science behind, and the impact of global warming.
The following clip shows a small extract from the film, and, if you’ve been reading this blog for a while you are sure to have seen the trailer.
Gore’s strengths are his deep knowledge, furthered by his considerable personal connections, and his obvious passion. Gore pulls together a vast array of ‘old friends’ such as the late great Carl Sagan, to explain the science of global warming and why it’s bad. And certainly not too many of us could jump aboard a nuclear submarine to go check out the thinning arctic ice for himself?
The film avoids overt political partisanship but can’t resist a few digs at the Bush administration. Its message is complex and at times shocking, but its message is ultimately one of hope. Gore reiterates the point that global warming is a moral issue, indeed it presents the greatest ethical challenge we have ever collectively faced. He stresses that, much as it is we, the people, who are responsible for global warming, it is also we the people who, by changing our behaviour, and by funding emissions reductions schemes through economic mechanisms such as carbon credits, we can all, as he puts it “do the right thing,” and avert the ultimate human catastrophe, the end of civilisation as we know it.
If you are serious about helping fight climate change then I urge you to see this film, and to take people you know with you. If you think global warming is a hoax, a joke, or just don’t give a damn, then frankly there’s nothing anyone can do for you. Let’s just hope that enough people take this, and other warnings seriously and really do “do the right thing”.