It always frightens me greatly when our goverment and political pundits wish to dampen the discussion and discourse of ideas, no matter how controversial.
Case in point, the upcoming movie The Day After Tomorrow (supposedly based somewhat on a book by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber on climactic change and superstorms) -- well, get that PR machine rolling because certain members of our society do not want to discuss, plan for, or take into account environmentally sustainable approaches to our future.
(Courtesy MoveOn)
Maybe you've already seen the trailer for "The Day After Tomorrow": tornadoes whip through Los Angeles and Manhattan is frozen over as global warming triggers an Ice Age across North America.
Nearly 20 million Americans are expected to see this movie, with as many as 7 or 8 million over Memorial Day weekend alone. Because the movie capitalizes on our real-life concerns over climate change, audiences are likely to walk out of the theater asking themselves: "Could it really happen?"
The neo-cons have already cranked up its PR machine to discredit the movie as "fright flick" propaganda cooked up by climate change conspiracy theorists. Never mind that they're relying on stone-age science, or that they're light-years behind the curve on the public's acceptance of global warming as a real environmental threat.
We can't afford to wait until the day after tomorrow to address the climate crisis.
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