Last weekend I went to see An Inconvenient Truth. Wow. Please please please go and see it for yourself, it is an amazing film. If you haven’t heard of the film (where have you been!) it is a documentary on climate change and especially global warming, featuring Al Gore. It centers around a presentation Gore has been giving for many years on the topic of climate change.
I found the film engaging and well produced given the material they were working with. It was extremely refreshing to hear evidence on climate change without the FUD. The film starts brilliantly and really sets the scene. I appreciated many aspects of the film such as: refusing to treat the audience like idiots; not ignoring Gore’s defeat in the 2000 election; focusing on the real support that exists in America for the Kyoto Protocol even though the country hasn’t ratified the treaty.
One of the best points in the film is when Gore asks you to imagine how we are going to be perceived by our children’s children if, when presented with this problem and the ability to do something about it, we did nothing. The changes we are seeing in our climate are gradual in reference to our own lifetimes, but are extremely fast-paced when considered in terms of the lifetimes of our rivers, or glaciers, or landscapes.
It has been said of Gore recently, “Where was this man in 2000!?”. I can’t help but ask the same question after watching his presentation style, conviction, and passion. Why was he cast as a boring mono-tone speech-reader as Vice President and Presidential Nominee (at least here in far away NZ).
The widget here allows you to pledge to go and see the film. If you are going to see the film anyway or as a result of this blog post, send in your details. It will be great to see how many pledges we can get. In Wellington, I know you have, at least, the choice of either Paramount or Rialto screening the film. Click the links for each cinema’s session times.
Futurama Trailer:
Links:
Official website
Review by Presentation Zen
Rialto Wellington Session Times
Paramount Wellington Session Times
An Inconvenient Truth at Wikipedia
An Inconvenient Truth at IMDB
