Ignorance is bliss???

I saw the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" with my dad the other day and it shocked the hell out of me. What stunned me was not the extent of global warming, i already had an idea about that (though it worried me) but what truly saddened me was that people have the ability to disregard what they consider trivial or unimportant or anything that does not affect them at that moment.
Al Gore said in the movie that he thought that with statistics, information and his teacher's knowledge he would be able to convince Congress of the gravity of the situation. He thought that they would make a new discovery and help the world to become a much better place. But he was wrong, they did not believe him............. You should have heard the sadness in his voice when he said that. It was like he had suddenly woken up to the fact that failure was a word in most people's dictionary. Up till then, i don't think he had even thought about failing.
Imagine the frustration of being called an emotional fool, when all you are trying to do is make the world a better place to live in.
I felt his pain, i felt his frustration and i felt like calling the world a bunch of fools. So many wasted years behind a cause that people should have woken up to a few decades ago. So many wasted years by a brilliant man, whose efforts would have and should have given the world so many other achievements, but all of these years and all of this talent has gone into trying to make people open their eyes to the truth. What a waste!! What a shame for mankind! I wonder what a man like that should ask from the world for all of the years he spent trying to save them, but most importantly i wonder what we would give him?.....
The greatness of this man shines through the fact that he yet hasn't given up. He is still relentlessly giving seminars in all parts of the world and working for a cause so unimportant that our future may depend on it. But of course, what else can you expect from an emotional fool, right????