Tuesday, July 8, 2014

This is...an inconvenient truth.

"An inconvenient truth" (2006) is a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former US Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming. 
It is very well made and impressed me a lot. And it also made me think "what if Al Gore had won the elections 2000..? Would this world be as it is today..?". Well, things went like that so it is useless to "wonder if...". 

Anyway, this documentary shows scientific evidence on global warming and on the effects it has today and the ones that it's going to have in a (awfully near) future if we don't reverse course. 
This film had a great impact on the public opinion: 66% of the people who had seen the film said it had changed their mind and 74% said they had changed some of their habits because of seeing it. 
In 2010 an initiative called "Inconvenient truth" was launched: it is built on the belief that young people can help solving climate problems. 



There would be so many things to say about this documentary...but YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT. ABSOLUTELY. It could really change the way you look at all the environmental problems. 
"An inconvenient truth" won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. It grossed $ 24 million in the U.S.and $ 26 million in the foreign box office, becoming the 9th highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States. 
It has raised international public awareness and it has reenergized the environmental movement. 



C'mon! Now go watch it!

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