Global Warming, Politics and Oscars

Last night Al Gore's incredible documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' won two Academy Awards at the Los Angeles ceremony. One went to Melissa Etheridge for best song and the other for best documentary. The crowd cheered for him and I even clapped while waiting for my flight back to New York. Al was invited up before with Leonardo DiCaprio to talk about 'greening' the Oscars and how to fight global warming in every facet of life. His film showed the world what is happening to the planet we live on and in my opinion, we owe the Vice President an immense amount of gratitude for his eloquent presentation of those now famous powerpoint slides.

Unfortunately the orchestra started drowning him out while on stage as he talked about the issue. It seemed that to the show's producers, keeping the Oscars on schedule trumped what Al had to say about the environment. Despite the music, everyone kept hinting towards Mr. Gore that if he wanted to make an announcement that this would be the time. Instead he stuck to his message, an important message that society deems inconvenient. When SUVs look as hot as they do, many people care about their looks over the MPG rating of their cars. Of course that isn't true for everyone, so hopefully not all is lost yet.