The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
by Ernest Scheyder · 30 Jan 2024 · 355pp · 133,726 words
seen as the most likely way a mass-extinction event would take place. It would be more than thirty years before Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth made the greenhouse effect a common talking point in American households. At the University of Texas at Austin, Calaway studied economics under Walt Rostow, who
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
Show on a stage whose backdrop fizzed and crackled with blue lightning bolts, Lutz stepped out of the vehicle beaming. “The GM electric vehicle is an inconvenient truth,” Lutz quipped, referring to former Vice President Al Gore’s film warning of the dangers of global warming. (Lutz himself was a climate-change skeptic
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
by Varun Sivaram · 2 Mar 2018 · 469pp · 132,438 words
Valley’s model of disruptive innovation to upend the lumbering solar industry. It was an exhilarating time to be in solar. Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth had captivated the country. Investors were juiced at the prospect of red-hot market growth, running up the stock market valuations of early solar companies
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solar power, xvi, 45, 70 for new solar projects, 65 in power markets, 240 tax-based, 266–271 and U.S. solar industry, 35–36 An Inconvenient Truth (film), 27 India. See also specific locations electric power capacity mix in, 13–15, 14f funding for new solar projects in, 64, 65, 113–114
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
liability by arguing that they did not know their conduct was illegal,’ Newman said.14 But so far, there’s been little media discussion of an inconvenient truth, and that’s one of the ways that ‘ignorance of the law’ principles are already regularly waived in US courts, in ways that appear to
Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus · 10 Mar 2009 · 454pp · 107,163 words
about the need for bold action. In the summer of 2006, Al Gore wrote a best-selling book and starred in a widely seen movie, An Inconvenient Truth, that were compelling—and terrifying—presentations about global warming. In lieu of action by Congress, progress on climate has come from other quarters. California enacted
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; they can be found in the most mainstream environmentalist discourses, from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to Jared Diamond’s Collapse to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Environmentalists are constantly telling nostalgic narratives about how things were better in the past, when humans lived in greater balance with nature. These stories depict
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—will smile and point to them with a local’s pride. 5 The Pollution Paradigm TOWARD THE BEGINNING of Al Gore’s 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, the former vice president shows the first photograph of Earth taken from outer space. “The image exploded into the consciousness of humankind,” Gore explains. “In
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out of 21 issues for Republicans, 17th out of 21 issues for Democrats, and 19th out of 21 issues for independents.10 The goal of An Inconvenient Truth was to establish an overwhelming consensus for action based on dispassionate reasoning. “Today, as the CO2 crisis unites us,” Gore explained, “we must remember the
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, will rise 55 percent, though some economists believe it will more than double unless we find cleaner energy sources.25 There is a scene in An Inconvenient Truth where Al Gore is greeted by cheering Chinese citizens and then seen conversing with energy experts as they huddle over a map of the nation
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movie after was neither that global warming is occurring nor that it is human caused, but rather that it demands sacrifice.45 The day after An Inconvenient Truth won the Academy Award for the best documentary, Gore’s hometown paper, the Tennessean, tipped off by a conservative think tank, revealed that Gore’s
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sacrifice often leads environmentalists to arrive at some very dark conclusions. When the moment came for Gore to describe the causes of global warming in An Inconvenient Truth, he blamed the “population explosion” and flashed a photograph of logging in the Brazilian Amazon. “This rapid population rise drives demand for food, water, and
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’s 2004 One with Nineveh, James Kunstler’s 2005 The Long Emergency, James Lovelock’s 2006 The Revenge of Gaia, and Al Gore’s 2006 An Inconvenient Truth, to name just a few. For the most part, these environmentalist cautionary tales have had the opposite of their intended effect, provoking fatalism, conservatism, and
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in This Irish Offshore Wind Complex. Nantucket Sound Could Be Next,” Cape Cod Times, November 6, 2005. [back] 5. The Pollution Paradigm 1. Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006), 12. [back] 2. Ibid., 109. [back] 3. Internet Movie Database, www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/taglines. [back] 4. “Be Worried. Be
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, “Turned Off by Global Warming,” New York Times, May 20, 2006. [back] 6. Gore, Inconvenient, 286. [back] 7. Emphasis ours. From the film version of An Inconvenient Truth. Also quoted in David Neff, “Al Gore, Preacher Man,” Christianity Today, May 31, 2006. [back] 8. The Pew Center is funded by the same foundation
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Yorker, September 12, 2005. Goldberg, Michelle. Kingdom Coming. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. ———. An Inconvenient Truth. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006. Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993. Granovetter, Mark. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology
Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
by Participant Media and Karl Weber · 14 Jun 2010 · 257pp · 68,143 words
public schools haven’t improved markedly since the 1970s. Why? There is an answer. And it’s not what you think. Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, has now directed Waiting for “Superman,” a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education in the United States told through multiple interlocking
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very first time. In the decade that followed, Guggenheim went on to make films on a variety of topics, including the 2006 Oscar-winning hit An Inconvenient Truth, which started a worldwide conversation about climate change. But it was circumstances in his own family that inspired him to revisit the subject of education
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this present system is that we’re not producing scientists and engineers fast enough to keep pace with the rest of the world.” As in An Inconvenient Truth, Guggenheim and Chilcott found that raw data, used in context, would help convey the depth of the crisis. After collecting and synthesizing reams of research
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with clarity and emotion. For all its complexity, Waiting for “Superman” came together relatively quickly. Guggenheim and Participant Media had forged a strong relationship on An Inconvenient Truth, and it seemed natural to reteam for a film on a shared passion—illuminating the crisis in public education. The filmmakers wrote a treatment in
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, NYPD Blue, and 24. He transitioned into directing nonfiction films with The First Year, which aired on PBS in 2001 and won a Peabody Award. An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former vice president Al Gore, was theatrically distributed by Paramount in 2006 and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. It Might Get Loud
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moviemaking that I’d gleaned from The First Year were percolating in the back of my mind. So when the opportunity arose to work on An Inconvenient Truth with former vice president Al Gore, I was ready for an artistic breakthrough which ultimately came from an unlikely place—two different discoveries I made
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’re invested in the stories of people you’ve captured on film. The biggest mistake most documentaries make is to forget this simple truth. For An Inconvenient Truth, we had to figure out a new way of introducing that quality of personal narrative into a scientific slide show—and in the process, we
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discovered an approach that ultimately shaped Waiting for “Superman.” The project that became An Inconvenient Truth originated when Laurie David and Lawrence Bender came to me and said, “We have this idea for a movie based on a slide show about
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personal narrative the elements of a redemption story. Now in the end, the personal narrative about Al Gore ended up being only a third of An Inconvenient Truth, but I think it is what hooks you in. In fact, when people see the movie, they often react as if they are getting to
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naysayers, none more convincing than the ones inside my own head. Truthfully, the final product emerged less from a thought-out design than from necessity. An Inconvenient Truth works because of the combination of disparate elements. We had Al’s slide show that was so compelling, while in the other scenes we went
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’t possibly have conjured up. It’s interesting—many people who had been following the issue of global warming for years could have responded to An Inconvenient Truth with a big yawn, saying, “I’ve seen all this information before.” But they’d never seen it the way Al Gore presented it, and
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what was inside his head. Three years later, I was celebrating having my new movie “greenlit” by Participant Media, the same company that had financed An Inconvenient Truth. Jim Berk, the new CEO of Participant, had been a public school principal. He was passionate about public education and was hoping I could create
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uses that hybrid structure to take audiences to a really new place. So I decided to do something rather radical, following the accidental plan of An Inconvenient Truth. I decided to make two different movies, oppositional in nature, looking at the school system from two very different angles, and then combine them. I
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think about where the two pictures will meet. I just want to make them work as separate movies.” This was based on my experience with An Inconvenient Truth. When editor Jay Cassidy and I cut together the slide show and the little movies about Al Gore, I would say things like, “Well, we
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to connect to the issue, and maybe invest in the solution. From the beginning, I wanted to try to use humor in the movie. In An Inconvenient Truth, we had struggled with a kind of compassion fatigue. Audiences would grow exhausted trying to absorb all the data or feel overwhelmed with how heavy
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possible. 3 The Road to Super Tuesday Lesley Chilcott Producer Lesley Chilcott has collaborated with director Davis Guggenheim on the 2006 Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary feature It Might Get Loud (2009), the Barack Obama biographical film for the Democratic National Convention, A Mother’s Promise (2008), and Waiting
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working. Yet director Davis Guggenheim and I weren’t sure if this could really be done. (Davis and I had formed a documentary company after An Inconvenient Truth, the first documentary I produced, which told two stories: former vice president Al Gore’s lifelong crusade against global warming, as well as a comprehensive
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Waiting for “Superman,” I wasn’t sure of the best way to get a crash course in this complicated, multilayered subject. Previously, when I produced An Inconvenient Truth, I had a head start, having been worried about our impact as humans on the environment since third grade, when I’d sent away for
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filmmaking skills to help him educate the masses about this issue. Thanks to the talents of a great team of professionals, the global success of An Inconvenient Truth was the gratifying result. But the issues surrounding the American public education system were another matter for me. Other than my brief stint at teaching
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expectancy of High school graduation rates High Schools (documentary) Hill, Paul T. Holdren, John Hope HSA. See Harlem Success Academy Humor Iceland “Illumination by collision,” An Inconvenient Truth (documentary) and collision cuts and raw data, use of success of Information, user-friendly Innovation, and charter schools Input policies(table) Intensive Partnerships for Effective
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Citizen teachers; Community volunteers Waiting for “Superman” (documentary) anthem awards and breaking-the-sound-barrier sequence families involved in and filmmaking techniques and hope and An Inconvenient Truth inspiration for and lotteries and raw data, use of and teachers’ unions Washington, Denzel Weingarten, Randi Weyerman, Diane White, Jack Wilson, Gahan Wilson, Nancy Work
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ways to transform the impact of the media experience into individual and community action. Twenty-seven films later, from GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK to AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, and from FOOD, INC. to COUNTDOWN TO ZERO, and through thousands of social action activities, Participant continues to create entertainment that inspires and compels social
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
a few times. In Rio in 1992. In Kyoto in 1997. In 2006 and 2007, when global concern rose yet again after the release of An Inconvenient Truth and with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2009, in the lead up
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advance a plan to heal the planet that also heals our broken economies and our shattered communities, this is it. Al Gore called climate change “an inconvenient truth,” which he defined as an inescapable fact that we would prefer to ignore. Yet the truth about climate change is inconvenient only if we are
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’s not clear who is more deluded. Shopping Our Way Out of It For a few years around the 2006 release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, it seemed as if climate change was finally going to inspire the transformative movement of our era. Public belief in the problem was high, and
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must have been exaggerating the scale of the problem. After all, if climate change really was as dire as Al Gore argued it was in An Inconvenient Truth, wouldn’t the environmental movement be asking the public to do more than switch brands of cleaning liquid, occasionally walk to work, and send money
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of what he describes as his “Road to Damascus” conversion to the fight against climate change. It was 2006 and Al Gore, on tour with An Inconvenient Truth, came to the billionaire’s home to impress upon him the dangers of global warming, and to try to convince Branson to use Virgin Airlines
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
by George Marshall · 18 Aug 2014 · 298pp · 85,386 words
climate change, especially given that security analysts regard it to be a key driver of future conflict and forced migration. In 2006, the year that An Inconvenient Truth came out, I found that Amnesty International had not one mention of climate change on its website. It consistently received less than five mentions on
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of the conservative rejection of climate change. In fact conservatives’ concern about climate change stayed fairly constant and even rose slightly when Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth was released and he received a Nobel Prize. If anything, their fall in concern came when his prominence declined. The issue appears to be less
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freeway interchange, skyscrapers, burning forests, an iceberg crumbling. The title fades in: “THE 11TH HOUR.” This film came out the year after Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and in many ways is a companion film. It is more of a montage—talking heads intercut with eye-catching images, and occasionally its creator
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communications around them. Back in 2006 the conservative D.C. think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute was frustrated by the publicity building up around Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and decided to produce a short video to put out its own view. The thirty-thousand-dollar budget required a very simple in-house production
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speeches, Al Gore used weiji as the central theme in his testimony to the U.S. Senate on climate change and then in his book An Inconvenient Truth. The characters for weiji dominate the front cover of The Death of Environmentalism, a revisionist critique of environmentalism by the Breakthrough Institute. The report’s
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, Michael Jackson, Prince, and Elton John. He deals in mind-bogglingly big numbers. “Look,” he tells me, “how many people saw Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth? Two million people, ten million people? That’s a real success. It’s the biggest documentary in history. I reckoned that I could create a
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our eagerness to find homey messages that would engage people, we fell into the wicked trap of limiting climate change through the solutions we proposed. An Inconvenient Truth posited climate change as an existential threat yet petered out into a string of small options—changing lightbulbs, inflating tires, and driving a bit less
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one church. And just as many came the next. Six times more people will watch this service on television and on the Internet than watched An Inconvenient Truth in U.S. cinemas. If climate change campaigners complain about the lack of foundation funding or media coverage, they should try running an evangelical church
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words
, the scientists have as much doubt about the models as many of their critics.43 However, cinematographic representations of climate change, like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, have sometimes been less cautious, portraying a polar bear clinging to life in the Arctic, or South Florida and Lower Manhattan flooding over.44 Films
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it is concerned with the objective world. What makes forecasts fail is when our concern only extends as far as the method, maxim, or model. An Inconvenient Truth About the Temperature Record But if Armstrong’s critique is so off the mark, what should we make of his proposed bet with Gore? It
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have a great deal of confidence about and which they see as more speculative. 44. Ronarld Bailey, “An Inconvenient Truth: Gore as Climate Exaggerator,” Reason.com, June 16, 2006. http://reason.com/archives/2006/06/16/an-inconvenient-truth. 45. Leslie Kaufman, “Among Weathercasters, Doubt on Warming,” New York Times, March 29, 2010. http://www.nytimes
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to ignore their decreased effectiveness and the resultant turnover, but ignoring bad side effects is easy. What’s not so easy is keeping in mind an inconvenient truth like this one: People under time pressure don’t work better—they just work faster. In order to work faster, they may have to sacrifice
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