An Inconvenient Truth

In class we watched Al Gores “An Inconvenient Truth” talking about global warming. Al Gores movie is of him giving a slide show presentation that he has done about a thousand times. He talks about how the government doesn’t really try and understand the threats of global warming and that they would rather ignore it until they must handle it. Gore speaks about how he used to be running for president but now he has a passion about getting his word out and speaking up for climate change. Throughout the presentation he gives many examples and life stories. Gore shows graphs, pictures, and videos to gain attention of viewers.

From the very beginning Gore emotionally pulls you in and you can tell that he has a passion for the presentation. Not only does he give us a new knowledge of climate change, but he lets us in on who he is a person. He gives two life stories within his presentation one being about his sister and the other about his son. When he was little he worked on a tobacco field. His sister started smoking at a very young age and continued throughout her life. Eventually, she died of lung cancer and this devastated Al Gore. Later, his son got in a car accident and was in the hospital for a long time. When his son was finally okay, this stepped up Gores motivation on the topic because he knew that his son might not of seen the world and he wanted to save it that much more. Giving these stories made me listen to everything he had to say and understand it more because it became not as much of a text book reading, but more of an actual passion and worrying topic. Sometimes, when speakers just simply lay out facts you start to lose focus. Gore gives many stories, examples, pictures, and videos grabbing your attention. Once the video of ice burgs breaking off and falling into the ocean and melting, it became real. As he kept going and showing what the future would be like as the ocean sea level would rise, it became scary. Seeing the representations of land such as Florida and California and other countries being flooded you start thinking about all the people that would lose their homes.

After watching this video I would say I gained a lot of respect for Al Gore. You can really tell he has done his research on the topic and that he cares a lot about it. It was very interesting to me personally because I actually wrote about climate change in the recent paper. Therefore, everything he talked about I remembered reading, but he cleared it up a little more for me. I thought he did a good job keeping the crowd entertained and telling jokes such as the opener, “Hi I’m Al Gore and I was the old next president.” I could tell right away that it was something I would want to watch.