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Why I haven't seen "An Inconvenient Truth," a confession

I haven't seen the "must see" environmental movie of the decade and I have no intention to. When An Inconvenient Truth came out, I just didn't make it to the theater. Then bits of it started seeping out into pop culture like that horrible Melissa Etheridge song. Next, I heard something about drowning polar bears which sealed the deal because I have a hard time watching animals get hurt in movies even if it's in a totally fictional context. Watching a film that tells me that driving to work in New Orleans is drowning polar bears in the arctic would make me cry.

Then there's the whole living through a natural disaster part of my life which wasn't nearly as bad as living through the aftermath. I knew that hurricane Katrina had been linked to global warming with no real evidence. What that storm did to the Mississippi Gulf Coast was devastating. But those pictures in New Orleans? That was due to poor government levees -- not a storm and not global warming. I didn't want to see images of my city used for political gain any more than I had to.

Finally, my biggest reason is the wimpiest of them all. I'm afraid. I read enough about environmental issues that I don't feel the need to watch some doomsday epic complete with flow charts and a soundtrack. Doing so would probably scare me into a cave where I would subside on bugs and rain and frankly, my children and husband wouldn't like that very much at all.

Have you seen An Inconvenient Truth? Did you change your lifestyle because of it?

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