Photo: A GOES-13 satellite view of the full disk of the Earth. (Source: NOAA)
“Every night, the TV news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation,” Al Gore wryly observes in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the new film from Paramount Pictures that hits theaters nationwide on Friday, August 4.
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These words were spoken before a Delaware-sized iceberg broke off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica in July—a reminder of the speed in which climate change is taking place, making it virtually impossible for us to fathom the radical and potentially irreversible environmental transformation now taking place. The outlook is grim, in light of just how much worse things have gotten since Gore released An Inconvenient Truth in 2006.
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In the original film, Gore was widely chastised for predicting that Manhattan would be flooded by a catastrophic storm. Then Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, and Gore was proven correct. But An Inconvenient Sequel is no “I told you so.” It is the work of a true believer who remains optimistic and faithful.
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Despite the dramatic and devastating evidence Gore presents throughout the film, which is profoundly traumatic and deeply unnerving, he is a true believer in the power of human potential to right the wrongs of the past and reverse the slippery slope to annihilation.
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