An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017)

AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER  
    D: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk                              (2017)  ¢ ¢ ¢
A decade on from his Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", Al Gore is still at it, traveling the world with is wonky PowerPoint presentation and telling anybody who will listen what climate change is doing to our world, and what we can do to keep it from killing us. Gore is probably the world's least charismatic politician and its least likely movie star, but there's no getting around his passion for his subject. The visual documentation he provides here is alarming: flooding in Manhattan at the site of the 9/11 Memorial, fish swimming in the streets of Miami, and record warm temperatures in Greenland causing glaciers to explode. The most visibly human image shows pedestrians trying to cross a city street in a place that's so hot the asphalt has melted. They slip and fall down, and in some cases, lose their shoes. The movie concludes with the climate accord in Paris, where Gore played a pivotal role by negotiating a deal between a solar tech company and the government of India that finally brought India on board. (Gore claims to be a recovering politician, but he clearly hasn't lost his skill at it.) Donald Trump's rejection of the climate treaty gets a mention here, but that's not really the point. The evidence is in, the rest of the world is moving on anyway, and anybody who ignores or denies what global warming could do to us at this late date is either delusional or a fucking idiot.