Al Gore bandwagon comes to town
Posted by DavidM in Green Politics | 8 September 2006
After reading so much about Al Gore and his new movie/book/lecture tour in the US, the UK is about to see it all first hand.
An Inconvenient Truth opens in cinemas here on 15th September. The posters are going up on the London underground and the interviews have started. The Saturday Times magazine had a big, very positive profile of the man himself the weekend before last and tomorrow night (Saturday 9th at 8.05pm) More4 has an hour-long programme with him talking about climate change.
As I've written before, I don't know whether Gore is a green visionary or presidential candidate charlatan and I don't especially care. What's important is that the film and surrounding acivity are keeping climate change high profile.
We had a wave of programmes and articles earlier this year and this is continuing the debate - keeping the environment high on people's agenda. If both Tories and Labour are talking about greener policies (however dubious you may think them) then something is changing.
The conversations need to be maintained until action happens. Otherwise the next news story will overshadow it and the momentum will be gone.
PS. I was on the film website and clicked on 'make a pledge' but you have to register and the form asks for far too much info. UIP - minimise the amount you ask for and you'll get much higher response rates.
