Age of Stupid

Your right about the blatant bias in the film but it the same, to a greater or lesser degree, with everything. If one wants to take notice of anything first find out who paid for the research, report, article etc. Not too many people unashamedly lie – they are just selective with their information. (The Labour government has raised this to an art form).
For instance, when I built electric cars back in 1971-73 the journalists’ predictable question would be “its pollution free…isn’t it?” to which my reply had to be “Yes - at the point of delivery! Because, at that time, the conversion from coal fired power stations to driving the wheels of the car was about 8-10% efficient – so far more polluting than petrol straight into the tank. One only has to look at the cooling towers, the cooling fins on the transformers in the sub stations etc. etc. to see the truth of that.
Global warming and cooling is an unstoppable natural occurrence which has been operating since the earth was formed and there is no way we can stop it however we have obviously aggravated and accelerated the process and there is absolutely no excuse for the excessive waste and pollution we have embarked upon in the last few generations. If we use up all the oil on the narrow minded assumption that we will find a replacement energy source, what if a future generation finds, let’s say, a cancer cure from oil but not enough of it is left?? What will they think of us?
Brian Balfern Waite
www.strawbalehouse.co.uk