After the announcement that An Inconvenient Truth had won for Best Documentary, director Davis Guggenheim made his way to the stage along with Al Gore, Laurie David, and others amidst a standing ovation from the crowd.
Here's what Guggenheim said:
I made this movie for my children ... All of us who made this film -- Laurie, Scott, and Leslie -- we did so because we were moved to act by this man [gesturing toward Gore] ... All of us were inspired by his fight for 30 years to tell this truth to all of us ...
Then he gave the mic to Gore:
Thank you. I want to thank Tipper and my family. I want to thank the Academy and everyone on this amazing team.
My fellow Americans ... [audience laughs]
People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue; it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource -- let's renew it.
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Tod Posted 2:32 am
26 Feb 2007
Clearly, as Cheney has illustrated, the VP has little sway.
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Tod Posted 2:43 am
26 Feb 2007
"Because the world doesn't matter if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar
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Jason D Scorse Posted 3:25 am
26 Feb 2007
J.S.
J.S. teaches environmental economics and blogs at http://www.voicesofreason.info.
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Delay And Deny Posted 3:30 am
26 Feb 2007
Al Gore is the P.T. Barnum of the Green set. He figured out how to milk the entire planet of its wealth by creating pseudoscience and mass marketing it.
Luckily for him, the Green party is 99.9% Liberal arts majors who couldn't read a linear chart even if it were about the price of granola.
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Tod Posted 3:38 am
26 Feb 2007
Info on the sequel is
HERE
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randino Posted 11:37 am
26 Feb 2007
I voted for Nader in 2000. I never missed an opportunity to trash Al. But the man is second only to perhaps Jimmy Carter, as someone who has risen from defeat, and now is far ahead of the person who beat him, in public esteem.
Eat your heart out, losers.
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MtnButterfly Posted 2:21 am
27 Feb 2007
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superzack101 Posted 5:41 am
18 Apr 2007
Z.Y.
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