Katrina. Global warming. Watching the nightly news one might notice how fear, in one form or another, keeps you interested; it keeps you tuned in.

Anaheim, CA — Someone almost drowned at Disneyland today. How to keep your kid safe from a torturously agonizing drowning DEATH, after the break.

Things like this piss me off. Ok sure I made that one up, but I see stuff like this all the time on news stations. It’s not really relevant to the public discourse and isn’t really news, is it? Good thing more and more people are becoming aware of this culture of fear that has always surrounded us.

I just saw a documentary that all of you need to watch if you haven’t already: An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore and this movie-film (hah!) do an amazing job painting a picture of the world if global warming keeps up its current trend. I finished with a feeling best described as uneasiness, maybe a dash of fear. But I want to make it clear that this fear wasn’t the kind I mentioned earlier.

This film does not take advantage of your fight-or-flight mechanism. This film, in a precise and factual format, opens your eyes to the very scary truth about about global warming if things don’t change. In the words of Roger Ebert: “You owe it to yourself to see this film.”

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