In the past few weeks, I have found myself watching a number of "documentaries" - documentaries that cover a number of theories, some well-founded and others hmm,....not so well-founded but interesting anyway. I started with "The Inconvenient Truth" and it got me to think (an amazing achievement for a movie by any standards).

While I had some idea about 50% of the havoc caused to the earth and have started using paper bags at the local supermarket, seeing chunks of Antartica dropping to the ocean was not comfortable. I would have preferred if Al Gore didnt interject with pieces of his losing the presidentship but it was a good watch.

In fact, it prompted me to pick up the critically acclaimed "Who killed the electric car?". Conspiracy theories abound and its always interesting to view a point of view that seems so justified but here again, was global warming right in your face. I would have loved to pick up an electric car myself and zip around it while charging it at the local Shell station. We dont travel more than 60 miles in a day in any case so it wouldn't be a problem!  Its odd how the problem goes from being "out there" to "right here, right now" when you watch two back to back movies on the same problem - global warming. I do want to be able to take a deep breath (can bet you are taking one right now :)) in the years to come and it would be a shame to leave the earth far dirtier than it was when I came into it.

 For now, I intend to do my bit while still keeping convenience in mind (not that extreme or that disciplined yet) by carpooling to work and walking down to the meeting room in the other building instead of taking my car. Hopefully, the world is not coming to an end just yet.....