Gore: It Is Ok To Lie If You Get What You Want
Well, that's not exactly what he said...but it may as well have been.
From an interview with Gore about his new movie:
Well fine then. I'm going to storm into an emergency and claim that my foot is infected with gangrene so that I can jump to the head of the line and have a doctor look at my ingrown toenail right away. After all, an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous my medical condition is is ok as long it will get my doctor to solve the crisis that is my ingrown toenail.
/sarcasm
From an interview with Gore about his new movie:
Q: There's a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What's the right mix?
A: I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
Well fine then. I'm going to storm into an emergency and claim that my foot is infected with gangrene so that I can jump to the head of the line and have a doctor look at my ingrown toenail right away. After all, an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous my medical condition is is ok as long it will get my doctor to solve the crisis that is my ingrown toenail.
/sarcasm
