My overwhelming feeling when I finished watching this, beyond that we are completely screwed if we do not start right here and now working together as a country on climate change, is that I continue to underestimate and undervalue Al Gore.
He quietly demonstrates in this film, which does a devastating update on just how much worse things have gotten since his first documentary on the subject, despite some very hopeful things that have been counterbalancing the desperately hot planet that we have today, all the while showing that he has been talking about this since the late 70's. He was a canary, screaming in a coal mine full of politicians who did not want to hear him, and are being paid by big oil to not listen to him now, all the while they are trying to sew up their economic future in renewable energy. He has been literally chipping away at the problem all the while his own country has done its damnedest to sabotage world wide efforts to improve the situation. This was short listed for an Oscar nomination this past year, and while it missed the cut, it is yet another great call to action on climate change.
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