MOVIE: REVIEW
AL TOGETHER NOW: Gore in Colorado in March, at a training session for his Climate Reality Leadership Corps.
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IN AL GORE’S
An Inconvenient Sequel, there’s an enjoyable episode involving Dale Ross, the mayor of Georgetown, Texas. An affable booster built like a fireplug, Ross tells Gore he’s spearheading the plan to get his town to switch to sustainable energy. His reason is that it’s cheaper, and he has a responsibility to his ratepayers. The kicker is that Ross is a conservative Republican. It’s a heartening moment at a time of horrendous political division, but it’s also central to the movie’s approach, which is to insist on facts over ideology and show why it’s a good idea to present the practical as well as the moral argument.