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An Inconvenient Truth
Wednesday, 29th October 2008 • Geek stuff, Video • No comments
I’m not usually one for political speaking or speakers who hold forth on environmental issues. Quite often, I find the subject boring or repetitive, the speaker uninteresting or the presentation so uninspiring, that it makes my brain shut off altogether. This evening, however, an hour and a half of Swiss channel SF2’s evening programming was given over to American ex-presidential candidate Al Gore and his renowned film, “An Inconvenient Truth“. We began watching it purely because it started just as we sat down to dinner, but we were immediately locked in by Gore’s straight talking, impressive statistics and (as he himself calls it) a “slideshow” of imagery and video (of which Steve Jobs would be proud).
An hour and a half later, after being fascinated and inspired by graphs for possibly the first time ever, I was half wishing that Gore could run for President again, some eight years after being questionably de