That’s Effed Up
Just as the documentary, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” is coming to theatres, and the general public is poised to learn about the EV1 and its premature demise, the Smithsonian has opted to remove the EV1 from display with no plans to exhibit it in the future.
Source: Smithsonian Removes Electric-Car Exhibit (AP)
The above decision ties back to a quote Al Gore uses in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth:
– Upton Sinclair
Apparently, even the venerable Smithsonian would rather hide history than confront it, if said history makes a financial supporter uneasy. This is the “uncomfortable truth” that is part and parcel of our problems accepting and addressing the inconvenient truth of global warming and related issues.
Justin, his parents and I saw Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” on Saturday. There were at least 15 other people in the theatre, which is notable since San Antonio isn’t exactly “green city USA”. I was probably among the youngest there, at age 32, though. Where are the younger folks? I know it’s summer and it’s not a date flick, but…?
We all learned something from it, and we all thought it was a well produced documentary and that Gore did a good job communicating it. I will be buying a copy on DVD for our home theatre library. His delivery was perfect. My only aggravation were the overt political bits — flashing back to the election, etc., but I’ll grant him that; politics aside that kind of personal/career setback can create a paradigm shift in one’s focus, and in that respect it fit the rest of the documentary. In multiple ways he addressed why this issue is so important and why he’s been so focused on it for so long, and in a renewed manner in recent years.
I wish everyone would go see this, regardless of their political or environmental views.
Incidentally, the marquee at the theatre (inside and outside, both) only had enough room for the movie to be listed as “INCONVENIENT”. It was rather comical. Vertical list of movies on the interior marquee:
LAKE HOUSE
FAST & FURIOUS
CARS
INCONVENIENT
Truer words have never been put into print …
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Lee said,
June 25, 2006 @ 11:31 pm
That’s too perfect. The marquee guy must have done that intentionally.
I’d like to see The Inconvenient Truth (TIT), but with two young’uns in tow, it’s gotten really hard to see anything but the likes of Cars and Over The Hedge in a theatre. (Both really fun movies, fwiw.) Anyway, I’ve added TIT to my Netflix queue.
I understand all the production vehicles used in Cars were electric, so it’s a relatively green-friendly film.
Oh, it’s “An Inconvenient Truth” not “The Inconvenient Truth.” That acronym just isn’t as fun. Makes you wonder if the title had changed at some point due to the acronym.