An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Page #9

Synopsis: A sequel to The Inconvenient Truth, the follow-up documentary addresses the progress made to tackle the problem of climate change and Al Gore's global efforts to persuade governmental leaders to invest in renewable energy, culminating in the landmark signing of 2016's Paris Climate Agreement.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
PG
Year:
2017
98 min
$3,456,144
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3,398 Views


For example, for the first time

they're learning about

the real energy balance

of the Earth.

Energy in and energy out.

Don't let anybody tell you

that we're gonna get on

rocket ships and go to

Mars and live in hermetically

sealed buildings.

We couldn't even evacuate

the city of New Orleans

when the hurricane hit there.

This is our home.

Delegates at the United Nations

Climate Summit

are expressing panic

over Tuesday's election results,

saying President-elect

Donald Trump

may threaten the future

of any international agreement

to slow catastrophic

climate change.

Trump has said he will "cancel

the Paris Climate Agreement"

and also promised to promote

coal power and fracking,

and says he will allow

for oil and gas drilling

on federal land.

A famous boxer once said,

"Everybody has a plan"

"until he gets

punched in the face."

Days into his presidency,

Donald Trump is sending

chills down the spines

of environmentalists

and some EPA employees.

This trifecta

of cabinet appointments,

all staunch

fossil fuel supporters

who've expressed doubts

about the urgency

of climate change.

For all the years

I've been involved

in this struggle, there have

been lots of setbacks.

So now we have another one.

With all these new threats,

there's never been

a more important time

to speak truth to power.

I do my best

to speak for

the public interest in solving

the climate crisis.

Even though it sounds

a little highfalutin,

I try to answer to the truth

of what needs to be done.

And each of us, in our own ways,

has the obligation

and some ability

to feel what is more likely

to be true than not.

And if you work hard enough

to get the best

available evidence,

you can feel if you're onto

what the right thing is.

And that's not arrogance,

that's just a feeling that

I think everybody

is familiar with.

And I've been

working on this issue

long enough that I feel very,

very deeply about

what the right thing is.

I'm not confused about it.

I remember vividly

when the Civil Rights

Movement first began to

pick up steam.

We saw Bull Connor

turning fire hoses

on young African-American kids,

and we asked

the older generation

why it's just and fair

to have laws

that discriminate

on the basis of skin color.

And when they couldn't

answer that question,

the laws began to change.

This movement

to solve the climate crisis

is in the tradition of every

great moral movement

that has advanced

the cause of humankind.

And every single one of them

has met with resistance

to the point

where many of the advocates

felt despair

and wondered, "How long

is this gonna take?"

Martin Luther King famously

answered a question during

some of the bleakest hours

of the Civil Rights Movement,

when someone asked,

"How long is this gonna take?"

He said, "How long? Not long."

"Because no lie

can live forever."

"How long? Not long."

"Because the moral arc

of the universe is long,"

"but it bends toward justice."

"How long? Not long."

We are close in this movement.

We are very close

to the tipping point

beyond which this movement,

like the abolition movement,

like the women's

suffrage movement,

like the Civil Rights Movement,

like the anti-apartheid

movement,

like the movement

for gay rights,

is resolved into a choice

between right and wrong.

And because of who we are

as human beings,

the outcome is foreordained.

And it is right to save

the future for humanity!

It is wrong

to pollute this Earth

and destroy the climate balance!

It is right to give hope

to the future generation!

It will not be easy.

And we, too, in this movement

will encounter a series of no's.

The great American poet

Wallace Stevens,

in the last century,

one of his lines was this,

"After the last no comes a yes."

"And on that yes

the future world depends."

Bye-bye, guys. Thank you!

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Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992, and the pair was re-elected in 1996. Near the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was selected as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election but lost the election in a very close race after a Florida recount. After his term as vice-president ended in 2001, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him (jointly with the IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a Representative from Tennessee (1977–85) and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state's Senators. He served as Vice President during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. The 2000 presidential election was one of the closest presidential races in history. Gore won the popular vote, but after a controversial election dispute over a Florida recount (settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5–4 in favor of Bush), he lost the election to Republican opponent George W. Bush in the Electoral College. Gore is the founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management and the now-defunct Current TV network, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading its climate change solutions group. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.Gore has received a number of awards that include the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. In 2007, he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year. more…

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