In 2006, former senator Al Gore created an academy award winning documentary on global warming entitled “An Inconvenient Truth” . The movie earned several awards including an academy award for best documentary and gore later received a noble peace prize. The movie discussed several different topics of great concern to global warming; such as permafrost, climbs in temperature, extinction of species, drought, and fatigue to name a few. Four writers in five different articles discussed the three topics
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Calculating Our Impact on the Global Climate In considering environmental problems, including global climate change, it is important to understand how we contribute to the change in the global climate. Using the carbon calculator on The Inconvenient Truth Web site, my estimated greenhouse gas emissions are 14 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year, which is below the U.S. national average. To reduce my climate impact, there are many simple things I can change in my everyday behavior
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your average public school. Although Charter schools seem to be the solution, not everything was shown in documentary. In another documentary An inconvenient Truth About Waiting for Superman, the teacher's union shed some light on the claims made by previous documentary; they reveal the truth behind Charter schools. The studies shown in An inconvenient
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Agriculture The human population is growing rapidly and is expected to reach its limit somewhere around nine billion (J. Foley "The other inconvenient truth" ). We are already using more than forty percent of the world’s land for agricultural purposes and agriculture is the single biggest contributor to climate change (J. Foley "The other inconvenient truth" ). Some people want to convert the land that we aren't using to grow more food, but that would greatly affect the world’s biodiversity by
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The film “An Inconvenient Truth” is a documentary film about global warming. Al Gore discusses the scientific opinion on climate change, as well as the present and future effects of global warming. The warming of the earth is caused by the green house gasses preventing the sun’s heat to escape from the earth’s atmosphere. That’s the elementary explanation of Global Warming by the movie. Al Gore describes the consequences he believes global climate change will produce if the amount of human-generated
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An Inconvenient Truth Reaction Paper With more and more affects of global climate change happening worldwide, an effort had to be made to publicize the dilemma, so that the public could truly understand the seriousness of the problem. For many years efforts have been made by oil companies and other lobbyist organizations to cover up the truly horrific effects of global climate change and the fact that human use of fossil fuels is the cause. Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, was just
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An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth is a focuses on Al Gore’s concerns and travel of global warming. According to him he has put many efforts into getting the message across for years and for years its been ignored. His biggest concern now is how far we’re going to let it go and it might be too late then. It is a PowerPoint presentation with many visuals and clips that Al Gore has traveled worldwide with. He starts off the document with some humor and includes personal events of his
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An Inconvenient Truth Pollution today will negatively impact the world tomorrow. Al Gore is making this argument evident in his film “The Inconvenient Truth”. This film gives statistics, experimental data, and other rather hard to grasp facts that prove how planet earth is being destroyed by our industrial societies. Statistics predict that within the next 50 years our planet will undergo several changes that according to experimental evidence has already begun. Scientist experimented to find
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Project FOX Fad or Expedient? - Perceptions of Consumers and Organisations on Green Marketing. Mieke van Kaam a research proposal – 22 April 2012 Table of Contents 1. Background 3 2. Problem statement 3 3. Research objectives 4 4. The scope and limitations of the proposed research 4 5. Literature review 6 5.1. Green fever –A load of Greenwash or not. 6 5.2. How green can you go? 7 5.3. Lets collaborate! 7 5.4. Consumer evolution 8 6. Research plan 9 6.1. Description
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documentaries are thought to be the most “educational” form of video production. During elementary school we would all get excited when we found out we would be watching a movie in class rather than doing work, but after watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (pollution/climate change) and Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size
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