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The Oscars: Green and Gore-y
Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio at the 79th Annual Academy Awards
The Academy Awards always feature some kind of political statement. This time it was more overt than ever: the Oscars are "green," and Hollywood loves Al Gore.
The greens - a movement friendly to the environment - have gained a lot more favorable publicity these days through Al Gore's movie presentation on global warming: An Inconvenient Truth. The movie is stunning. It made climate change a much more urgent issue to me. I began unplugging my computer at night to save a little energy, since I know my energy comes from a coal-burning and air-polluting plant.
Some have said that Al Gore is planning to run for President. Though he would probably make a great President, it would be a shame if he ran - because it would automatically make his important film look like it was just a campaign stump speech.
Al, for the sake of God's green Earth, do not run for president - no matter what the Hollywood stars say.