Gore stays mum on meeting with Trump
Former vice-PARK CITY, UTAH president Al Gore said that while he wouldn’t divulge specifics about his December conversation with Donald Trump, it wasn’t “the last conversation.”
Speaking to a packed auditorium in Park City following the premiere of the climate change documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which kicked off the 33rd Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Gore said that he’s seen a lot of people who started out as climate deniers change over time.
“Whether he will or not remains to be seen,” Gore said of Trump, whose inauguration as president was Friday.
Trump has decried climate change as a hoax.
Gore also noted that “two days after that meeting he appointed someone to the EPA who I don’t think should be heading the EPA.
“But this story has many chapters to unfold here,” Gore said.
An Inconvenient Sequel, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, which comes 10 years after An Inconvenient Truth, follows Gore through a year in his life as he tries to effect change through education — whether it’s private individuals or world leaders.
Gore travels from the changing Jakobshavn Glacier to the flooded streets of Miami to connect the dots on how global warming is impacting the world in real ways.
At one point, Gore even says that every night on the evening news is like “walking through the Book of Revelation.”
And yet Gore remains hopeful. On stage, he said he had just flown in from Davos, Switzerland, where he saw business leaders and heads of state at the World Economic Forum treating climate change as their top priority, as well.
Sundance founder and longtime Gore friend, Robert Redford introduced the film.
“A few years ago, there was a moment when politics and the Supreme Court was not very kind to Al,” Redford said.
“I think what they did drove him away from politics, but it drove him toward film, and I think that’s to our benefit.
He could work both sides of the street, so to speak, and he has and he’s done it beautifully.”