We’ve been advertising it on our front page for a couple of weeks. Today we finally got to see it at our local theater, and we were very impressed. Al Gore manages to alternate excerpts from the public talks he’s been giving for six years (over 1,000 times), all around the world, with powerful computer graphics, still photos, and video of the effects of global warming. Goddess! If only he’d shown this much passion when he was running for President!
Showing charts and lecturing can be boring, as most current and former college students, as well as an independent candidate for President (Ross Perot), know well. D. Guggenheim’s direction, building on the advice Gore was given by video presentation advisors who updated what had been an old-fashioned slide show, slowly but relentlessly builds the argument for global warming as the most serious moral issue of our times.
Sure, the fossil fuel and (American) automobile industries will be able to hire a few science whores to claim that global warming is merely a “theory,” and a “controversial” one at that, but those who have bothered to research it for themselves know that nearly 100% of the world’s scientists are agreed that it’s a fact and one for which human beings are responsible.
We strongly recommend that everyone see this film as soon as possible and then tell all their friends (and foes) to do the same. This is one documentary about a world crisis that ends on an upbeat note, suggesting activities viewers can do to start fixing the mess that human greed, ignorance, and stupidity have created. Go to the Inconvenient Truth website at www.climatecrisis.net for more details, scientific references and political action tips. (Don’t get confused like I did and go to www.climatechange.org instead. That’s a propaganda site for the nuclear industry.)
As the old union activist Joe Hill said, “Don’t mourn, organise!”