NSTA likes Exxon better than Gore

[mburbank]

I don't know if I can go for this Preech. Your request is perfectly reasonable, but I've turned down the opportunity to see this film free twice now. I find the subject very, very depressing. I also don't go see documentaries on world poverty, nor have I ever seen Schindlers list.

I'm reasonably up on climate change science (or global warming or however you want to put it). If the movie moves people to actually be more concerned, swell. They might even vote as if it were a more serious concern than say, gay marriage, but I doubt they will until serious consequences are far more widespread. Anything no matter how severe that can be assigned to random natural occurences or natural patterns won't get people to change the way they live, lord knows I haven't changed much.

I think at least in America, the point to pound is that there's money to be made here. Huge piles of it, and the country that takes the lead is going to be rich. A megahurricane here, an epidemic there, famine in some far off dark skinned country, nobdoy cares for long and you can't prove any sort of link. If however, every coastal city in America starts loosing several valuable blocks of real estate, suddenly everybody will be motivated to do something.

What we'll do? I don't know. What's causing this? I have pretty solid beliefs about that, but I don't really care if climate change has been provoked by man or is part of a natural cycle, or if the two can even be called different. It's going to make it harder to live, and mostly when that happens people start killing each other to blow off steam. So here's my stock tip. Invest heavily in weapons systems and green tech. Diversify in both. If I had two pennies to slap together, that's what I'd do.