truth and institutions

Alden 2022-03-24 09:01:59

Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" caused a global uproar in 2006, and even during the campaign against George W. Bush, the supporters on both sides were divided into supporters and opponents of global warming. Gore presents the already stark reality of global warming from a historical and global perspective. For this topic, I believe that everyone has their own opinions. Here, I am just commenting on a segment of the discussion on China and the United States in this documentary.
Gore has a sentence that I very much agree with, that is, the old concept + new technology equals an unimaginable future. If a country relies on new technology to realize its concept, the tragic consequences will be hundreds of times or more than those supported by old technology. The system is the product of the concept, and the concept is the ideology in some countries, which is determined by the high-level leaders of the country, not the ordinary people. The will of the leaders represents everything. As a result, new technologies serve outdated concepts under this system, with unimaginable consequences. Gore also cites an example in the film where the former Soviet Union deliberately tampered with a comment with a "capitalist flavor" in order to ensure that the reports published by the media were in line with its own ideology. I think, how consistent this is with the reality of a certain country.
Of course, the United States and China need to cooperate with each other in pollution control, but their ideological differences determine that such cooperation can only be a mere coincidence in the end. The unique confederation system in the United States makes it possible to make environmental governance regulations on a state-by-state basis without over-considering the requirements of the federal government. But China is different. Its own economic development standard makes all provinces focus on the economy and completely put aside other factors such as the environment. The so-called EIA is nothing but perfunctory for the media.
The reform of the system ultimately requires political reform, rather than a simple reform of the government and economic growth. But political reform has shaken the foundation of that old concept and denied certain high-level decisions. This is not allowed.
So, everything went cloudy.

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Extended Reading
  • Patsy 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    Mark Twain: What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. it's what we know for sure that just ain't so. (It's not ignorance that gets us into trouble, it's fallacious assertions that seem right.) // This is the best textbook on the subject of global warming. Most of the time, people are indifferent even when they hear calluses on their ears, and they don't know how to regret it when the sea water drowns their noses.

  • Arjun 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    It's hard to say whether this is a political show or an environmental movement. I don't think it's qualified for a documentary. It's more like a TV version of a campaign speech. Anyway, Gore's slideshows with an Apple laptop are still amazing.

An Inconvenient Truth quotes

  • Al Gore: I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

  • Al Gore: You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.