An Inconvenient Truth: Carbon Neutral, Profits Going to Educational Campaign
by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada 
on 06.12.06
An Inconvenient Truth is, according to this post on the official website's blog, the first carbon-neutral documentary. "Paramount Classics, Participant Productions, and NativeEnergy have joined forces to offset 100% of the carbon dioxide emissions from air and ground transportation and hotels for production and promotional activities associated with the documentary." Al Gore has also mentioned in numerous interviews that he has made his life carbon-neutral, and now he's announcing that "100 percent of the profits from the book and the movie [will go] to a new bipartisan educational campaign to further spread the message about global warming." That's in addition to forming a thousand people to give his slide presentation around the world. We're curious to see what the movie's critics will think of next... They certainly haven't successfully attacked the science thus far and now they're losing some fuel for their "attack the messenger instead of the message" campaign.
On a more personal note, I finally had a chance to see the film (it came out in Ottawa last Thursday) and it is excellent. I highly recommend it to all treehuggers and especially their less eco-consciouss friends and family.
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It would be interesting to learn what visitors to your site think about the idea that this film (and the book) should be released into the public domain, once a certain amount of money has accrued from it to reimburse the cost of production and to sponsor other activities.
This would be the easiest way of proliferating the message, since then it would be possible for anyone to freely replicate a dvd of it, or to post it on many websites for anyone having the capabilities in their computer systems to view it or to make distributable copies of it themselves, without any copyright restrictions.
His mansion consumes more than 20 times the average american household. Al Gore is a fraud. Global warming is a myth. In the immortal words of Bill Shatner... "Get lives people."
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editor note: See this.
Maybe he is not making money off the movie and book, but he is making a killing off his co-ownership in the carbon offsets firm . . . a "convenient" truth.