Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.
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If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom - think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming and inspire actions to prevent it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his 'traveling global warming show,' Gore is funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our 'planetary emergency' out to ordinary citizens before it’s too late.
With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point - and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore’s personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most impassioned cause of his life - convinced that there is still time to make a difference.
With wit, smarts and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore’s persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization.
Paramount Classics and Participant Productions present a film directed by Davis Guggenheim, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. Featuring Al Gore, the film is produced by Laurie David, Lawrence Bender and Scott Z. Burns. Jeff Skoll and Davis Guggenheim are the executive producers and the co-producer is Lesley Chilcott.
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Format: PAL
Year: 2006
Running time: 93 Minutes
Subtitles: English
Rating: PG
Product Features:
An Update with Former Vice President Al Gore
The Making of An Inconvenient Truth
'I Need to Wake Up' Music Video by Melissa Etheridge
Commentary with Director Davis Guggenheim
Commentary with Producers Laurie David, Laurence Bender, Scott Z Burns, Lesley Chilcott
Product Benefits:
Learn about the environmental crisis, so you can make a difference.
For every DVD purchased ONE TREE will be planted.
100% recyclable packaging.
Includes 10 Things To Do to help reduce the impact on global warming
