We just watched the forthcoming movie by Al Gore, and it was more inspirational and confident than the original, more of a cinema verite travelogue than a Powerpoint preso.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, introduced the film, and I took a video. At the end, Al Gore and my classmate Jeff Skoll do a Q&A with Lisa Jackson (former EPA Administrator, now at Apple). Jeff spent the past five years convincing Gore to do a sequel.
Gore:
“In order to fix the climate crisis, we have to fix the democracy crisis. Our democracy has been hacked.”
“Despair is just another form of denial.”
“There has never been a more important time to speak truth to power.”
SolarCity plays a central role in the film as Gore attempts to persuade India to agree to curtail new coal plan construction and agree to the climate accord:
“The hopeful story of what has developed in the last decade since An Inconvenient Truth came out is that the cost of electricity from renewable sources, principally solar and wind, and now the cost of energy storage, principally in batteries —all those costs have come down so rapidly that they’ve created a new world of opportunity that is irresistible for business and industry and investors. The sustainability revolution that is now unfolding in the world is in the historical sequence of the agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, information revolution, but it’s unique in this sense: It has the breadth and scope of the industrial revolution, which completely transformed our world over a century and a half or more, but it has the speed of the information revolution. It is happening extremely rapidly, and it is changing everything.”
“For any of those who have any doubts, “just remember that the will to act is itself a renewable resource. We are going to win this.”
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