Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 6
th, 2020 at 7:40pm:
You have said enough.
Al Gore?
I've seen An Inconvenient Truth several times.
I was quite impressed when I first saw it but
then I stared researching it and found that
the evidence was debatable rather than set in concrete.
Here is a negative review:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081228224753/http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?s...“An Inconvenient Truth” is something you rarely see in movies today:
a blatant intellectual fraud.
Shame on all of the people involved in this travesty. I agree with this comment. The movie offers an easy and understandable insight in the discussion of global warming. It's a great place to begin the debate. The single question that really needed to be answered, but wasn't, was the question about jobs. If coal and other polluting energy sectors were eliminated, what would happen to the hundreds of millions (and I mean hundreds of millions)of jobs that are married to it, especially in Asia? This question was on the lips of every Chinese student in this movie. Al Gore has not one significant, concrete contribution to make regarding this question. And it is impossible for a coal shoveller in China to apply for a job in new solar technology, if his coal pit closes. In this respect Al Gore hasn't fooled a single Chinese citizen. In China if a new coal pit opens, there will be about 100,000 (100,000) applicants. I wonder what the reaction would be if he went to a meeting of coal miners and told them that their livlihood had to be abolished to save the world. I don't think they would clap with praise like the Chinese students and professors. I think they wouldn't give a damn. Complaining about the dirty particles in the air, while luxuriously jetting around the world filling it with exhaust fumes, is not the way to convince the rest of us to change to environmental friendly activities. And who paid for his trips, cars, and voyages to the polar reigions in submarines? Respectfully, after his son's accident, and seeing the bill, I would have thought that Gore would have looked into health care reform first, if he had his thumb truly on the pulse of the people. If you like the white upper class telling you to change your lifestyle while they continue to live a lifestyle you only dream about, this movie is for you. Why travel in limousines? One man in a big car? Why not share a cab? Show us that you really are ecologically minded. This movie has too much sugar for me.