An Inconvenient Truth
Yes you read the title right, and No, I’m not trying to steal the title of Al Gore’s recent documentary on global warning as a sassy title for my post on my poor blog which is being ignored by its uncommitted owner for so long. LOL. and yes to you, I love my LOLs and I will never stop using them in my posts. LOL LOL LOL LOL. There you go, u now got an extra 4 LOLz to count. Hey, it’s actually 5 extra LOLz… Nooo now u make it 6.. O_O. Have fun, go mad with them.
So… as you may have predicted. I’ve just watch Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, a video documentary on global warming
Now, just for some fun, I’ll categorize you guys who reads my blog into 4 categories. According to what? According to ur degree of awareness of the global warming issue. And please don’t take this too seriously, there is no scientific methodology involved in the categorizing. K?
1st Category: You guys that might have been an expert on this issue (global warming that is) will fall to this category. That is you guys who actually read research papers on this issue and write or involved in some research which somehow contribute to the global warming research. I don’t expect to found many of you guys actually hanging out within this category.
2nd: People who are aware of the global warming issue, thus somehow actually doing something in return to ur knowledge and awareness of the issue, e.g. donating for research, using energy efficient appliances, etc. (I know, ‘e.g.’s are lame. but I’m lame, no big deal). I should hope that more of you guys will fall to this category.
3rd: Most of you guys will probably fall to this category. It is for people who once happen to precisely know what global warming is according to their favorite textbook definition, but has somehow forget it, including some other popular terms that most of us will be familiar with, but will probably fail the challenge to give the definition it in 5 seconds without any googling or wiki-eing (whatever…), e.g. greenhouse effect or gas… and for my Indonesian fellas, no Efek Rumah Kaca bukan terjadi karna rumah dan gedung" kita semuanya pake kaca, makanya uv rays nya sinar matahari dipantulin instead of the diserep, and voila! our earth’s getting warmer…. Noooo…. don’t blame the kaca. Ok??? oh and Greenhouse effect = efek rumah kaca … To summarize, this is the category where u say I know what global warming is, but if u ask me give one paragraph of meaningful explanation of it, I’ll probably give up. or I know about it but I don’t know it well enough to give a 2 minutes speech on it on my IELTS speaking test… LOL.. *u know who u are* U somehow know what’s global warming is, u know that it is a bad thing, but u think this global warming stuff is not for me. It’s for those self proclaimed so-called-environmentalists. If the earth is really getting warmer, so what? Install a new Air Conditioning system and make a whole loads of ice tea.
4th: The last and the most glorious. You belong to this category if you don’t know what global warming is, and you don’t care about it. In fact, you probably will never care.
So, what’s the fuzz with all the categorizing?? Well, actually just to make you guys think which category u are as u read this post… that is, if you prefer to think… Cuz most people who read my blog will probably be my friends who are so bored, they have nothing to do in the middle of the night, they open their frenster account, see a newly updated blog alert in their home page, and click it. and now you’re reading this post. You’re bored, it’s in the middle of the night or early morning, you can’t sleep, and you’re reading this to boost ur appetite for some sleep. You don’t wanna think, cuz thinking wakes u up. Of course my long sentences with high probability of grammatical error will probably wake u up, cuz u have to think to understand them. LOL. So, wheter u like or not, at some point of reading this blog, u probably will have to think, like it or not.
Hopefully now u know which category u will most likely fit into. Me?? I’d say I somehow settling myself to fit in the 2nd one. I do aware of Global Warming issues, I read, watch, and listen to my news and articles on global warming… I’m cutting off my energy consumption (note: exclude food from energy consumption.. HOahoahoahoa), but still use some energy inefficient appliances in my home, merely because I can’t afford to buy the efficient ones…. they’re a lil bit expensive.. out of my budget.. yet… but getting there… LOL.
Some food for thoughts:
Which category are you in? r u happy with it?
Now.. ever heard of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth? If yes, have u watch it?? If no, please please please buy one, borrow one, or download one (legally of course :p, I borrow mine from a DVD rental, renting original DVDs. there u go), and watch it. With or without ur favorite subtitle V(^-^)V … and after you watch it, I want you guys to ask ur self:
Are u still happy with the category u’re in? If not, which category you would like be in?
When you got the answer, if you feel like moving to another category (hopefully to the 2nd category… don’t expect many people to be in the 1st one), please actually do something. Be it plant a tree, plant a flower, plant a rose, or donate to research or non profit organization aiding the global warming issue, use energy efficient appliances, use green energy, buy hybrid cars, buy electric cars, use bio-fuel, catch public transport, watch more documentaries, google some more articles… whatever it is… do what you gotta do… U needn’t be a genius to actually do something to tackle the global warming problem. U don’t have to be rich either… u can’t afford energy efficient appliance? maybe u can only afford one with 1 or 2 star ratings.. well then, use it efficiently… dihemat kalo kata nyokap gw…. as for refrigerator, better upgrade to 4 star rating or above… it’s better for the health of the planet as well as the long term health of ur bank account. My current fridge is of 2 star energy rating, not proud of it, but will probably upgrade to more decent one within this year… hopefully *counting on my paychecks* Every action counts….
You see, the documentary is so good, it make me actually write a post for it… and will probably buy one from my local DVD store to share with my friends and family. It’s a very good stuff to watch… So good it become a compulsory video to be shown to students in schools across US and some European country. And not only it’s entertaining it actually load some useful stuff to ur brain… not just some impressions of some blond with laced undies.. nuff said.
Some interesting comments about the movie in my DVD rental websites’:
"If you manipulate the X and Y axis on any graph you can make little things seem really, really big. Interesting that Gore flew around the world on nasty fossil fuel burning planes to promote this. YAWN" -by some guy.
Yeah, that will do for some of us.. But for me, like it or not I do feel the negative effect of global warming.. Shifting to a lifestyle that will actually reward me with more money to save and cleaner air to breath, won’t hurt me at all. And if you don’t like the graph… do ur homework, do some research on the internet or ur local library or attend a scientific conference on global warming. That’ll do.
Oh, FYI there’s 14 LOLs in this post, which supposed to be 15, but I replace 1 LOL with 1 Hoahoahoahoa. Correct me if I’m wrong. N catch u guys in the next post… which is another way of saying… I’d probably be too lazy to make another post for my blog, so please do me a favor after u read this post, watch the movie (An Inconvenient Truth), and maybe return to the post for some comment… Haha…
(see, I just dodge another L*L there)
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