The Age of Stupid

Tonight, Monday September 21, 2009, my fellow members of ESS and I attended the Age of Stupid premiere. I found it in general to be extremely informative and rather depressing, but I would like to focus this blog post more on how The Age of Stupid is related to two other similar documentaries I've seen, because the Age of Stupid is not unlike what I've seen before.

My junior year of high school was the first time I watched Al Gore's an Inconvenient Truth. It was also the first time I was introduced to the topic of global warming and climate change in such a foreboding way. I saw an Inconvenient Truth as a very informative documentary, which gave me background to this subject that I thought was rather iffy at the time. It warned the population to stop it's gas guzzling ways, and backed up every bold statement the documentary made. 

My senior year of high school sucked me even more into the realities and probable future of the world in which we live. This movie, Six Degrees Could Change the World, explained that because of global warming, climate change is happening. But, it needs to stop right away because as the temperature of the earth increases, disaster will ensue; and the breaking point until total disaster is 6 degrees Celsius. The movie gave future scenarios of disasters that are bound to happen when the human race does not change it's ways.

I found the Age of Stupid to be a combination of Inconvenient Truth and Six Degrees. It gave us a look at what is happening now in global warming, the signs of climate change, and the undeniable future of our world when we don't change our ways.

I found the movie to be certainly re-enlightening and will help push towards what needs to be done at Copenhagen this winter.