An Inconvenient Truth

This weekend is Global Warming Awareness Weekend in Hutchinson, Kansas. Officially Global Warming Awareness Weekend – city proclamation and all.

One of the central parts of the weekend is three showings of “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary. It’s free all weekend, showing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Sunday afternoon they’re having some additional programs, including a lecture.

Tonight Teresa, Diana, Brad and I went to see it. We were supposed to meet Cleta there, but I never found her. We ran in to lots of people we knew, of course.

Brad had seen it, but the rest of us had not. It was interesting, but also terrifying. Good grief, what a mess we’ve made.

I emailed about 60 people about the movie. About a dozen had plans at one time or another this weekend to go see it so hopefully they’ll have a good turnout each time. There were plenty of people there tonight.

James and Betty Taylor have been instrumental in making this happen. They are so devoted to the projects they’re interested in. I’m very impressed with what they’ve done in this case.

Teresa and I went to get a bite to eat afterwards and we were both in shock from all we had learned. Although I knew the basics, there was plenty of new information for me there.

What can you do?
1. Replace all your regular lightbulbs with energy efficient ones – if we all did that one thing we’d make a huge difference.
2. Recycle as much as you can.
3. Get others to see this documentary.

Well, I’m going to go turn my thermostat down and go to bed.