Truism - truth is inconvenient

Went to see Al Gore's evangelical movie about global warming - An Inconvenient Truth. Most of you will have seen it, read the crits or heard about it by now, so I won't go into detail, but will comment that for me it was compelling and should be mandatory viewing for all parents. If this movie doesn't prompt behaviour change then I doubt anything will.

But what I find particularly pertinent is the title. For me it raises questions, such as how often does truth get in the way of our individual choices, or become 'inconvenient'? How often do we 'bend' the truth in order to get our own way, or avoid having to change our behaviours?

In this instance the scale of the behaviour change required is so drastic that for most it will feel worse than inconvenient. But as Al Gore states convincingly (with the back-up of the international scientific community) the alternatives are unthinkable. In my book inconvenient's better than dead. Let's see if a generation of parents feel so too, because according to Al, it's no longer enough for us 'greenies' to be pulling our weight - everyone else is going to have to jump on the bandwagon too, and quicksmart.