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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH:
WILLIAM DAR, THE FILIPINO
AS GLOBAL MANAGER
The inconvenient truth, its origin is Western. Al
Gore’s film, our film, directed by David Guggenheim,
has just won the Oscar for ‘Best Documentary’ as I
revise this 26 February 2007, high noon Manila time.
An inconvenient truth is that it is high time we revise
everything we have on our hands that has anything to do with
polluting the physical environment, aside from polluting the
psychological, spiritual, political, economic environments, not
necessarily in that order.
The Inconvenient Truth as documentary also won the Oscar for ‘Best Original Song’ with the one written by
Melissa Etheridge, ‘I Need To Wake Up.’
We need to wake up to the reality that we have to have faith in whom we can’t see, such as God and gravity, and
to believe in the things we can’t touch, such as the ozone layer above our heads and the bottom of the iceberg
beneath our feet. A crewman said of the Titanic: ‘God himself could not sink this ship’ (National Geographic
quoted in NextTag.com) – well, an iceberg tipped the unsinkable ship. The ozone layer protects us from the
relentless ultraviolet radiation of the sun; in return, the ozone layer is not protected from our own relentless
greenhouse gas emissions, thereby depleting the ozone layer. So: Global warming is of our own making. Planet
Earth is our Noah’s Ark; God would not sink Noah’s Ark, but we would.