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poverty, intractable wars, virulent disease, hatred of all
stripes-these are a few of the scourges we live with today.
And yet global climate change trumps them all; for if it's not
addressed, all life on the planet will be devastated,
regardless of geography, class, race, or creed. The
Inconvenient Truth is the gripping story of former Vice
President Al Gore, who became interested in this startling
issue while at college 30 years ago, and now devotes his life
to reversing global warming. Traveling the world, he has built
a visually mesmerizing presentation designed to disabuse
doubters of the notion that climate change is debatable. The
heart of Davis Guggenheim's film is this elegant multimedia
lecture itself, where Gore indisputably correlates CO2
emissions with exponentially rising temperatures, already
responsible for dramatic climactic shifts like ice-cap
melting, drought, and rising sea levels. Interwoven with this
riveting public address are intimate moments revealing the
poetic, searching side of Gore as he struggles to define his
purpose in the aftermath of the 2000 election. This is
activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to popularize
and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most
threatened by the solution. With humor and searing
intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to
avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer
an option-in fact, it's immoral.
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