Despite how well the film is made and how well Al Gore puts his points across, I fear that its main problem will be it is preaching to the already converted (e.g. me). Not to say I didn’t enjoy it – wait, perhaps ‘enjoy’ is the wrong word for a film about the realities of global warning and the end to the world, as we know it.
An Inconvenient Truth is a film of Al Gore’s (“the former next President of the United States,” he quips at the start) presentation on global warming; a presentation he has made over a thousand times, he tells us. This may sound boring, but I can promise you, it is not; Gore is very very funny and the many ways in which he illustrates his point, are clear and interesting.
I love a good documentary and this is really well made, thought provoking and never boring; everyone should see this. Unfortunately, they will not.
The thought that this guy not only could have been the US President, back in November 2000 instead of George.W.Bush, but was the US President back in November 2000 instead of George.W.Bush - before he was cheated out of it - is extremely frustrating. How different the world would now be! There’s no doubt that the USA would be part of Kyoto, and I can make a confident judgement, that there’d have been no war in Iraq and definitely no war on terror.
At one point during the film, Gore shows a set of scales, with a few gold bars on one side and the Earth on the other. It is supposed to represent how global warning’s critics say the economy would go to pot if we took it into our own hands to try and save the world (a world that doesn’t need saving, according to them).
‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it’ Upton Sinclair
“Look at those lovely gold bars,” he says. “Mm-mmm.” and so on…he turns his attention to the globe…“All those lovely gold bars…the entire world…” he rubs his chin, sarcastically. “Hmm…” The crowd laughs. And so they should, because if they weren’t, they’d be crying.
An Inconvenient Truth website
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