Against climate
Paramount Pictures and Participant Media Present an Actual Films Production of ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. The producers are Jeff Skoll, Richard Berge and Diane Weyermann and the executive producers are Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, Scott Z. Burns and Lesley Chilcott. Cinematography is by Jon Shenk, the editors are Don Bernier and Colin Nusbaum and the music is composed by Jeff Beal.
In 2006, when Vice President Al Gore became the focal point of the Oscar-winning ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, he was the quintessential man at a crossroads –etching a new path in the wake of the gruelling and controversial presidential election of 2000, which ended in an unprecedented Supreme Court decision. Needing to move forward meaningfully, Gore exited the political stage and followed his gut and his heart into uncharted territory. He threw everything he had – all his energy, intellect, drive and voice -into one almost overwhelmingly huge issue that had long lit a fire within him: confronting the increasingly alarming prospect of a global climate crisis that could literally threaten the end of human civilization.
At that time, the climate crisis was itself at a crossroads. Scientific consensus was coalescing around what the full human, economic and planetary costs of climate change might be if the world made zero effort to cut manmade greenhouse gas emissions. The farreaching scope of the threat was just breaking through to the public -- and the fossil fuel industry was putting up serious resistance.
But that was then. And in the 10 years since, so very much has changed.
The inspirational story of just how amazingly far the battle to halt climate change has come -- and why Gore now says the momentum is unstoppable -forms the core of ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power’. The film sets off in a fresh direction to become an inside view of positive changein-the-making, as it reveals how Gore has faced off against fierce forces and has weathered disappointments -- only to rebound and magnetize a groundswell of people ready to take on the most momentous human quest of our time.
The sweeping transformations since 2006 have taken place on personal and global levels. Gore has become a uniquely post-political figure, pursuing ideas larger than any party or office; ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power’ and other media have woven climate