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Thursday, July 27 GOING GLOBAL
There is a huge problem with going to see Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.’ That problem is simply this…before going to see the flick, you most likely know about global warming and get that the end of the world is coming one day, far, far away but after seeing the movie, you kinda feel like you actually have to do something about it.. I never was much of an Al Gore fan... always thought he lacked the alpha male energy of Clinton. I guess he was too much of a new age girly man type for my nerves, but I did trust him. I did have the sense that he would try do the best he could for this country and also for this world. I guess that’s what set Gore apart from most other politicians. They might have been harping about doing things to make this country better, but none of them seemed to give a hoot about the globe. I’m still sad that the election WAS STOLEN, from Gore but after having watched the film I felt that maybe being president just wasn’t his calling. Maybe doing something to stop this world from annihilating itself is. I don’t want to have to explain to my goddaughter one day or to the children I might adopt, that I sat back and did nothing, while the Antarctic was melting, while millions of peoples homes were submerged in water, while great rivers dried up and a crisp chilly autumn breeze became something in the past. At first I walked from one end of town to the other feeling overwhelmed by this new sense of responsibility. Honestly my life felt a whole hell of a lot better when I could just sit on my ass and feel sad about global warming, but now feeling as though I have to do something about it is a huge ass drag and a daunting one. But as kismet might have it, I was flagged down by an adorable hostess at a local eatery. She tried to talk me out of buying bottled water and instead paying a quarter to fill my jugs up at a well in town. A well?! When was the last time, you heard about a well? She said, she too found the thought of trying to do something about this huge crisis overwhelming so instead she’d chosen to do something small, to change just her little slice of the world, to go to the well. Well, well... isn’t that what it’s all about. All of us, changing our little slice of the world. I have to admit, the last couple of nights, I was too lazy to wash out the empty cans of cat food and put them in the recycling bin. I know, I feel like shit about it, but tonight, I rinsed the damn can and I won’t do it again. I don’t think I can handle the long schlep to the well, but soon as I get back to NYC I’m gonna buy one of those water purifiers so I can stop investing in the bazillion plastic bottles. Maybe I’ll walk a little more, subway (AAAK) a little more and cab it a little less. I’m going to call up Con Edison and ask them about Green energy. I’m gonna start buying hemp products. It’s not a lot but it’s a start. Meanwhile, there are no Republicans and Democrats, no lefties and righties or in betweens when it comes to saving the world. So please go out and watch the movie AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and then go out and do something about global warming. Banded together, we can make a difference.
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