Al Gore Promotes Warming Movie in Cannes
is this a documentary or fiction -- or a Mike Moore-ntary?
PARIS - The United States is emerging from a "bubble of unreality" about the problem of global warming, former Vice President
Al Gore'
Gore was in Cannes to promote the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," which chronicles his efforts to bring the dangers of climate change to greater attention.
"I think that up until fairly recently the United States has been in a bubble of unreality where global warming is concerned," he said, speaking before the Cannes premiere of the film, which debuted at last winter's
Sundance Film Festival' Sundance Film Festival and opens in U.S. theaters Wednesday.
Gore said he believed Americans were ahead of U.S. politicians in their thinking about the issue.
"I even believe there is a chance that within the next two years, even (President) Bush and (Vice President)
Dick Cheney' Dick Cheney will be forced to change their position on this crisis," he said. "One can only attempt to create one's own reality for so long. Reality proper has a way of insisting itself upon you."
Sunday, May 21, 2006
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