Gore's New Film Showcases Climate Threat & Opportunities

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Former Vice President Al Gore's new film, An Inconvenient Sequel is the follow up to the celeb-environmentalist's award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The film follows Gore on a whirlwind, international odyssey, through Greenland, India, Europe, the USA and more. It showcases Gore’s continuing work educating people about the impact of climate change.

In 2006, when An Inconvenient Truth premiered, people were much less aware of the progress and impact of global climate change. Since then the world has seen some of the hottest years in the historical record, the loss of major sections of polar sea ice, and a handful of catastrophic weather events that can be traced to the warming of Earth's atmosphere. An Inconvenient Sequel documents these events.

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It's not all doom and gloom, though. In the past decade, the vast majority of the world's scientists and officials have accepted the reality of climate change's causes and impacts, creating a global boost in interest and investment in green technologies. Those, in turn have grown in efficiency and flexibility, and they're cheaper than ever. Gore and his guests hail this is a major success.

The film does not shy away from politics. It repudiate's the Trump administration's decision to remove the US from the Paris Climate Accord, and slams some in Congress for continuing to take political contributions from major fossil fuel companies.

Somewhat oddly, An Inconvenient Sequel also takes up a much older and more personal political battle -- Gore's loss of the 2000 Presidential election to George W. Bush. The idea behind bringing this up, it seems, is to show the connection between politics and the growing environmental crisis. But it does come off as a lasting, personal bitterness Gore holds for the episode, and for the Supreme Court decision that ended it with the Bush v. Gore case.

In the end, the film tries to thread the needle between showing the real, growing effects of climate change, and the burgeoning opportunities to address it. The US has progressed beyond awareness to the implementation of local and national clean energy policies. Now, though, the film argues that Americans must come together with the international community to combat the environmental threat.

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Participant Media, the producer of An Inconvenient Sequel, has partnered with Countable to build an action center around the film. That is separate from the content here on Countable's main site.