"An Inconvenient Truth"

Before going into my actual position on the matter of global warming, I want to say that I don't believe that "An Inconvenient Truth" is a good argument for it. Throughout the movie Al Gore made several references to things "scientists" said, without showing any of the evidence or actual quotes from said scientists. Gore also made ridiculous comparison after ridiculous comparison in an attempt to play off of his audience's emotions. He compared global warming to WWII, polio, slavery, the tyranny of Britain in early American history, and many other things that in the end have nothing to do with the issue. Large parts of the movie were spent showing victims of hurricanes and other such natural disasters with almost no time spent discussing possible solutions for global warming (something Al Gore pretty much assumes to be true in the film). Also, much of the movie felt like a biography of Al Gore's life, which, while slightly interesting also has nothing to do with the issue of global warming. The only value I feel the movie had was that of scaring people into action, though I do not believe that scaring people into action is necessarily the right thing to do.

That being said, I believe the danger to our environment is something that should be taken very seriously. As Christians, we are called to be good stewards of the Earth, and besides that hurting our world will inevitably hurt us in the long run, if not the short. Whether or not carbon and other emissions will really cause damage on the scale Al Gore is implying, it will cause some damage and change the Earth in hard to predict ways. This is something we should be very careful about. The problem is, our current economy depends on industry, and industry largely depends on the burning of fossil fuels. So even if we want to eliminate carbon emissions, it would be incredibly costly to do so. The only real course of action we can take is to depend on our scientists working on alternative energy to find a viable alternative. So, that is my stance. Encourage, perhaps with money, those who are working on an alternative to the burning of fossil fuels and implement these alternative solutions.