Global warming is a moral issue. Al Gore kept repeating this throughout his speech in the movie.

Most of us almost automatically brush off this issue because it does not personally affect us [yet]. I can
honestly say the same thing for myself. I have encountered the term global warming since elementary. I
guess i just settled with my surface level understanding on the issue because no one ever since
presented global warming to me with same authority and sense of urgency as Al Gore did.

The movie made me realize a few things that i have been taking lightly which i should have taken
seriously, truths that i thought never really mattered but are now becoming more real to me, and gave
me a deeper appreciation of the quality of nature that i get to experience in this lifetime.

One of the things that i have taken lightly all this time is the very impact of global warming itself on me
as a human being whose natural habitat is the earth. Truth is, the earth is dissolving at an exponential
rate. What we thought would only happen thousands of years from now, is drawing nearer to the
present faster than we ever imagined. Who would have thought that the immense pile of ice on the
north pole is ever going to be disintegrated. Such a formidable structure that human beings pale in
comparison to height and size, now breaking down as if it were not built on solid foundations. Little did
we know that they existed or they even contribute to the balance of the earth temperature. How
fortunate are we that we live near the equator, that we are not the direct recipients of these drastic
events happening in the extremities of the earth.

A truth which i have never really given much attention is the fact that every single plastic we buy and do
not reuse, those that we just throw away elsewhere, those that we burnt because it takes years for them
to decompose, and those which comes with us for every purchase that we make, have had huge
contributions to the global warming that is happening right now. For every single environmental neglect
we did multiplied by the total population in the earth is already enough to cause a major environmental
problem. How much more that we keep on repeating what we did, because either we never really cared
or we never really knew its impacts. I salute Al Gore for his passion in getting this messsge passed along
to as many people as he can on this issue. We have to understand so that we can obey. I have seen no
other politician who equals Al Gore's passion for the environment. It's mindblowing to know that his
purpose for running in the congress was to widen his audience for this cause.

Lastly, it made me appreciate the environment deeper. I have always been a nature lover and the
thought that the beauty around me will soon disappear, that the next generation, my children or even
their children's children would possibly not be able to witness such beauty of creation - this is
heartbreaking.

Indeed, global warming is not a political issue but a moral issue. At its deepest core, global warming
occured because we wanted economic progress and nothing else. We knew it would cause the
degredation of the environment yet we did not budge. Now, it's our survivability that is at stake. I can
only hope that this time is not yet too late and that we could actually still do something to revert the
effects of global warming.