![]() Gore's passionate warnings about climate change seem increasingly prescient. ![]() Gore as "Ozone Man" - if the Clinton-Gore ticket were elected, he suggested, "we'll be up to our neck in owls and out of work for every American" - but with the emerging consensus on global warming today, Mr. And even Hollywood movies like the kiddie cartoon "Ice Age: The Meltdown" and the much sillier disaster epic "The Day After Tomorrow" take climate change as a narrative premise.Įnter - or rather, re-enter - Al Gore, former vice president, former Democratic candidate for president and longtime champion of the environment, who helped to organize the first Congressional hearings on global warming several decades ago.įourteen years ago, during the 1992 campaign, the current president's father, George Herbert Walker Bush, dismissed Mr. News & World Report article noted that dozens of evangelical leaders had called for federal legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and that "a growing number of investors are pushing for change from the business community" as well. A year ago, the National Academy of Sciences joined similar groups from other countries in calling for prompt action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Ī Time magazine cover story in April declared that "the climate is crashing and global warming is to blame," noting that a new Time/ABC News/Stanford University poll showed that 87 percent of respondents believe the government should encourage or require a lowering of power-plant emissions. And despite efforts by the Bush administration to shrug it off as an incremental threat best dealt with through voluntary emissions controls and technological innovation, the issue has been making inroads in the collective imagination, spurred by new scientific reports pointing to rising temperatures around the world and melting ice fields in Greenland and Antarctica. There has been broad agreement over the fundamentals of global warming in mainstream scientific circles for some time now. In the end it made me think, 'Deniers will deny but they will not last long, at all.Lately, global warming seems to be tiptoeing toward a tipping point in the public consciousness. Even before you can say "F*ck Donald Trump", just know full well how far we've come, how much of a difference we're making and how much the world is changing for the better than the worst either to ourselves or the planet. But what I actually take away from this film is that despite everything we're fighting for, the film gave me a renewed sense of hope that greater change will come and when it comes only then will we look back and see how all this was done. ![]() Rather than alluring to the obvious shocking facts and events affecting our planet and way of life, audiences actually see Al Gore for what he's really doing in real life 'being the most influential person of his generation' inspiring others to take up arms in the fight for Climate and how the world's democracies are politically unwise when it comes to using the actual solutions. However, it's most certainly a film everyone and I mean 'Everyone" on this entire planet needs to see. ![]() ![]() Following on a decade from when former American Vice President, Al Gore alerted the world about the threats of Global Warming and their impacts on our planet and our lives, it seems all too real now that another one of these films didn't really need to be made. ![]()
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