As a climate change hawk I'm probably supposed to puff Al Gore's new sorta-music video, but instead I am going to pan it. It is in that wiry-metallic synthetic faux music created by autotune software.
The autotune makes phrases more catchy through imposed rhythm and repetition, but the scientific knowledge imparted is minimal. "As CO2 increases, it increases temperature.." is science. That's about it for the science.
"..only earth we will ever have" is partly fact, partly value-laden.
Acting as if we "have" the earth got us into this rotten mess.
and "We have to care about" is not science, it is an asserted value, one not shared by all.
It might be slightly more factual to say the earth has us. We are part of a transient thin layer on its surface.
Transient.
Thin layer.
We don't "have" a planet, we are part of one.
If we cooperate carefully with planetary conditions,
we might survive as a species for more generations.
No guarantee.
Get over it.
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