Tracy and I finally found time to see An Inconvenient Truth yesterday, and you probably expect me to say that I loved it, and you'd be right.

I do have one complaint though, and that's that it should've been longer. Most of the film is awesome at making one disgusted that global warming is happening and that politicians, for the most part, are ignoring it. I was sitting there, well aware of what needs to be done, waiting for Al Gore to get into HOW this Climate Crisis can be solved, to show people in the audience who don't think about this as much as I do how humanity can save itself.

Well, he does get to it eventually, but only at the very end, and it seems tacked on. Maybe there are plans for a sequel where there is a compelling movie made about "real people making real changes" to combat global warming?

I was just reading the transcript of when Al Gore appeared on Larry King Live this past Tuesday, and Gore did a great job of stating exactly what will cause real, meaningful change:

We can solve the crisis, but the next president, whoever runs in both parties and whoever is elected, must have a different climate of opinion in the United States because when the people at the grassroots level feel an appropriate sense of urgency about this, then the politicians in both parties will start competing to offer the really meaningful solutions that are out there.

This is exactly how I feel about biking in Toronto. When there are enough people biking that the values and ideals held by cyclists are really considered by the politicians at City Hall, that is when we'll see meaningful changes to public policy concerning bikes.

I know we can make that happen.

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