Is It Too Late? Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film in which basis are put long-term researches of changes of climate, level of carbonic gas in the atmosphere, and conditions of polar ices. In this film, El Gore, a presidential candidate of 2000 and former vice president of the United States, explains the scientific and political view of global warming and its serious consequences that we already observe on Earth, and other more tragic consequences that are still to come in the near future if we do not reduce emissions of exhaust gas in the atmosphere. Nothing especially new about the global warning is presented in the film, but what made this film effective is, firs of all, the fact that El Gore, a public and well known figure in the United States, is the main protagonist of the film. Another effective point in the film is that El Gore put all the scientific work together and showed that the problem is real, it is not a myth, and it should not be ignored any longer.

Film’s weakness at first may appear Gore’s long and mushy personal life experience story, but his story is well balanced with the film. For example, his narration about his sister’s tragic death may be used as a good example of the main idea of the film. Gore let us know that his sister had cancer, but doctors discovered it when it was too late to save her. Almost the same happens with Earth. We may determine that we are losing our planet too late… but now is still the right time to start recovering health of the Earth. Gore tells that we have everything needed for Earth’s salvation, except, perhaps, political will.

Even though Gore in the film says about the global warning that “this is really not a political issue, so much as a moral issue,” I believe that it is as much a political issue as it is a moral issue. The truth about the global warming is inconvenient to many economically developed countries.