[Copied over from my earlier blog - storyteller.blogspirit.com] 

I saw the documentary ‘An Inconvinient Truth’ yesterday. A TV channel was airing it on the occasion of Earth Day. Let me start by saying it is a must watch.

Al Gore is as much at the centre of the documentary as global warming.  But, I didn’t think of him as a distraction. Both of them deserve your equal attention. Al Gore because he is really pushing for the cause and global warming because, well, you want to live, don’t you? And so do your children and their children.

The most shocking fact for me in the documentary, other then the statistics that Gore presented, was when he talked about how the last ice age swept Europe and rest of our planet. It took just 10 years. Can you believe it? It just a short span of 10 years Earth went into an ice age for a normal climate like ours today. It just shows that mother Earth can change her mood just like that, showing no mercy to any of her children.

Global warming is a very relevant issue for everyone of us. Most of us believe that we - ordinary men and women - are incapable for doing anything to fight it. No doubt, a big part of the onus lies on the governments and policy makers. But this is really something that every individual has to take up at his or her level. We need to review our lifestyles and habits, and change ourselves.

Please discuss about global warming with your family and friends, create awareness and act. Otherwise, a few decades away, we may not have any family or friends left.