We must all face an inconvenient truth

WE SAW An Inconvenient Truth, the Al Gore film on global warming, showing for five nights only at a cinema in Clonakilty, a trendy town with health food shops, gourmet shops, a country market, a holistic healing centre offering naturopathy, aquapuncture, homeopathy etc, a music school, bookshops and many well-educated people pursuing the good life in West Cork.

The area population is 5,000. There were just 10 people in the cinema. I’ve no doubt it will be packed to bursting for James Bond’s Casino Royale. So much for environmental awareness amongst my cutting-edge, alternative-therapy neighbours.

The film should be compulsory viewing. It may not be ‘entertainment’ but the madness of what we are doing keeps one’s eyes glued to the screen.