New doc 'Cool It' acts as a rebuttal to Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
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The new documentary Cool It from acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner (DiG!, We Live in Public) is a breath of fresh air for anyone sick and tired of the fear-based approach to fighting climate change. With the help of Bjørn Lomborg — the Danish environmentalist and author with which she co-wrote the film — Timoner’s Cool It acts as a rebuttal of sorts to Al Gore‘s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Lomborg is author of the controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist, in which he posited that much of the money that industrialized nations are pouring into the fight against climate change is being ill-spent.
The film was born out of what Lomborg saw as a lack of a middle ground, “The whole climate debate has been marred by the fact that just two positions have been viewed as acceptable: either you are a climate change denier or you are Al Gore and the world is coming to an end,” told the Agence France-Presse. Lomborg does not deny that climate change is happening, in fact his entire argument is based on the fact that climate change is very real — the difference between Lomborg and others is that he believes that we’re not doing the right things to combat it. Cool It acts as a vessel for Lomborg’s ideology, in it he calls out the alarmists and fear-mongers in the climate change debate and explores practical alternatives to current models.
Read more: http://www.enviralment.ca/2010/11/18/required-viewing-cool-it-takes-a-pragmatic-...
The film was born out of what Lomborg saw as a lack of a middle ground, “The whole climate debate has been marred by the fact that just two positions have been viewed as acceptable: either you are a climate change denier or you are Al Gore and the world is coming to an end,” told the Agence France-Presse. Lomborg does not deny that climate change is happening, in fact his entire argument is based on the fact that climate change is very real — the difference between Lomborg and others is that he believes that we’re not doing the right things to combat it. Cool It acts as a vessel for Lomborg’s ideology, in it he calls out the alarmists and fear-mongers in the climate change debate and explores practical alternatives to current models.
Read more: http://www.enviralment.ca/2010/11/18/required-viewing-cool-it-takes-a-pragmatic-...
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