what to expect, a Michael Moore-type propaganda-style passionate POV piece, or a factual but stuffy, pedantic lecture, OR a true story with real power, maybe animated enough to move the whole earth.
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I predict you will be disappointed.

The movie is not done in the over-the-top style of Moore but definitely has a POV.

It is somewhat stuffy but not nearly as bad as you might expect based on Gore's general lack of entertainment value.

I came away feeling more confident about ideas that I had been willing to hear. IOW, I was already convinced that global warming is real and humans play a large part in it. So, of course, I saw what Gore had to say as a true story. But, as I posted earlier, my trust was based on being shown lots and lots of evidence and being directed to other places to get more evidence. Not on anything faith-based.

I saw a woman being interviewed on Book TV yesterday (yep, it's one big party here! ) -- the author of "Being Nickeled and Dimed" and "Not Making It" (I think those are the titles -- stories about the working poor). Anyway, I didn't like everything she had to say but I was sympathetic to her subject matter and she struck as being very real -- they showed her at work in her apartment and she was a no-frills kind of person. I liked that.

Anyway, at one point she said she was ticked off by the pink ribbon people. When she was being treated for breast cancer, she found it annoying that they gave her a teddy bear to hug and told her to keep battling the cancer. She said the teddy bear was infantilizing and it made her feel bad for the people who died of breast cancer -- were they and their families made to feel they just weren't trying? I liked that attitude too. No fluff, no pink-ness, no feel-good crap. Just get the right meds and let's see if we can cure this disease.

So, maybe I am the kind of audience who would rather see a less story-filled movie with more facts. Fewer pictures of cute polar bears and more actual science.

And I think this movie delivered that. So, you will probably not like it!

But it did inspire me to finally start recycling more than just our newspapers.

Which DS promptly reminded me was a stupid waste of time and energy based on our viewing (and mutual enjoyment of) the Penn & Teller show you have started watching recently -- Bullshit.

So, I guess I am, at the moment, possibly engaging in faith-based recycling. Trust-based? Hope-based? Nothing-else-I-feel-like-I-can-do based?

Sigh. . . the burden of smart kids who remind you when you are inconsistent. . .

Nance