An Inconvenient Truth II

I finally got to see Gore's movie after work today. It's very good. Al Gore is a first-rate orator and the PowerPoint presentation around which the film is based is pretty impressively put together. For someone who has had an interest in global warming, a lot of what he says is not new but it is perhaps more persuasively put than I have seen it before. A really powerful use of graphics - and even graphs and bar charts which will often kill a presentation.

I found the last quarter of the movie the most inspiring - and that was what it was intended to do. It is a call for action and a mass movement to get politicians to put voters concerns before those of big business. However there were only a dozen or so people in the theater. I suspect, unfortunately, that Gore is doing most of his preaching to the choir - but maybe he can inspire some of the choir to do their own preaching.

One other funny thing happened today - I got a phone call from a TV chat show researcher who has seen the blog and asking if I would come on the show in London on Thursday. I said OK but I would not fly. They seemed to think that making me go overland would be too much and so demured. The show was a afternoon popular (as opposed to highbrow) debate about branding. I don't really think I understand why anyone is stupid enough to spend a fortune on certain brands and probably could not have contributed much more than this in any case. I don't think they would have been really interested in the real reasons for people living the simple life. The show's producer is Endemol who make the ghastly Big Brother here in the UK.

And, in any case, I don't even own a television!