Zachary FenellAn Inconvenient Truth
January 15th 2009 17:47
An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
I voted for the guy. I admit now, with hindsight being 20/20 and all, that it was mostly to not have to vote for Bush. Gore would have made an okay president, but he's a much more effective human outside of the political arena. He's a great diplomat, mostly, and he is a compelling public speaker... but he's a terrible scientist.
When I heard that An Inconvenient Truth was coming out, I was so excited. Finally, I thought, we're going to get some serious progress made on the awareness of global climate destabilization (which is the far more accurate version of "global warming"). We're going to see some people's eyes open, and we're going to start seeing real changes taking place.
I think that Al Gore suffers from an overexposure to politics. He took a completely clear-cut issue and twisted it up with misinformation. He misrepresented facts and used the least plausible scenario to try to make a situation sound much worse than it allegedly is... except, it IS much worse than it looks, and it's going to be even longer until it's fixed because everyone jumped on the global warming bandwagon and then lost steam.
Because that's what happens when you use a lie to motivate people, even if it's heading towards an important and positive goal.
Don't get me wrong. I'd still take the man out and kick back with a couple of drinks and shoot the breeze for a while, and I appreciate immensely what he tried to do. The problem arrives with the fact that he put the responsibility squarely on the wrong group and situation, and his suggestion of solutions are implausible and possibly even impossible.
Don't sit there and tell me how much damage coal-burning factories and power plants cause and then illustrate how you're getting the Chinese government to make even more. Define what you're doing, because from here, you just look like a jerk.
Al... Al... why did you do it? It broke my poor little activist heart.
This movie suffers from severe factual deficiency, but the motivation and drive were there. It gets 2.5, and that's just because I'd like to meet him sometime without any chance of violence involved.
2.5 Stars
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