| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.3

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Book Review

An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning. DVD, directed by Davis Guggenheim. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Participant Productions, 2006. 94 minutes, color. Available September, 2006.

A few years ago it would have been hard to imagine that many people would get excited about viewing a film that features Al Gore delivering a lecture. And it would have been difficult to predict that Gore's movie would be the toast of Cannes. Yet An Inconvenient Truth seems to have struck a chord with a surprisingly large segment of the public. This reviewer has always found Gore convincing and persuasive, but in the film he displays an engaging presence not often seen during his presidential campaign. Gore's recent, more appealing image stems from his passion for the film's message, which reflects a return to his environmentalist roots, evidenced in his book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Houghton Mifflin, 1992) and in his earnest speeches on climate change before Congress. The premise of An Inconvenient Truth is simple and sobering: a "relentless rise" in carbon dioxide levels has brought the issue of global warming to a crisis. What is at stake, Gore points out, is nothing less than our ability to live on this planet.

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