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Originally Posted by Thor
Looking back I wish it wasn't Al Gore who championed this in the states and made a movie to get his point across. Maybe if it was a conservative who did this it wouldn't have become so polarized to the left vs right on people's stance for this issue. Better yet if that documentary was done by real scientists instead of a politician. Oh well, damage done.
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Real scientists have done documentaries on the subject. This subject required someone famous to get even a sniff of broadbased appeal.
Tell me that National Geographic's documentary would have gotten the distribution that "An Inconvenient Truth" did:
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/n...-the-world-dvd
The two major movies about global warming were "An Inconvenient Truth" with Al Gore and "The Eleventh Hour" with Leonardo Di Caprio. The only other one that I know of is the PBS documentary. Hosted and voiced by Alanis Morissette. Without a known name, nobody pays attention.
Even the late aforementioned Carl Sagan wouldn't have been enough star power:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
I've mentioned in threads before... the only people with the power and resources to inform and motivate people towards change are people that are going to be instantly attacked for having said resources. If Al Gore didn't put his face in the movie and he just paid scientist X to discuss the issue, it wouldn't have gotten any distribution. There are plenty of documentaries BY SCIENTISTS on the subject. Only "An Inconvenient Truth" got into all the major theaters.