An inconvenient truth: beware the politician in fleece clothing

Al Gore's film delivers a stunning lesson on global warming. It should also alert Britons to the danger of voting on personality

Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday September 13, 2006
The Guardian

I am ashamed to say it took a movie to make me realise what, above all others, is surely the greatest political question of our time. An hour and 40 minutes in the cinema watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, which opens in Britain this weekend, is what finally did it.

Sure, I had heard the warnings and read the reports: for two decades environmental activists have been sounding the alarm. But, I confess, none of it had really sunk in the way it did after seeing An Inconvenient Truth. I can think of few films of greater political power.

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