Tim Cook introduces Al Gores new movie An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power in Silicon Valley

[brooklynite]

Source: 9to5Mac

Former vice president and current Apple board member Al Gore today debuted his new movie “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” in Silicon Valley. The movie comes as a sequel to the original film debuted in 2006.

In attendance of the debut in Silicon Valley today were Apple CEO Tim Cook and VP of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackso

Cook gave the introduction for the film, talking about climate change as a whole and initiatives currently in place to combat it. The Apple CEO explained that countries are coming together to push towards a cleaner environment and that there are a lot of reasons for optimism:

“There are signs all around us of the climate crisis, but there’s also great reasons for optimism. There’s renewable energies that have been developed and are being widely deployed. Almost every country in the world has agreed to do certain things and markets are rewarding renewable energy everywhere.”

“There’s a lot of reasons for optimism. But of course the clock still runs and the urgency has never been greater. So I think there’s never been a better time for this film.”

Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/02/tim-cook-al-gore-movie/?pushup=1

[tenorly]

1. The best president we never had.

With the possible exception of Hubert Humphrey and Bernie Sanders.

Can't wait to see it.

[karynnj]

6. Even on this issue, I would argue that the best President we never had was Kerry

However, we had the good fortune to have him as Secretary of State, where he was the instrumental person in getting the US/China climate pact that was key to getting the Paris Climate Change Accord. That accord was the signal to the market to do all the things Gore is speaking of here.

I would say that between Kerry and Gore, BOTH were heros on climate change -- and strong allies. Gore was instrumental in raising the knowledge of the problem among non scientists. I had hoped then, that his incredible efforts would make it a voting issue -- yet even in 2016 - after his efforts and nearly 200 countries agreeing to the Paris Accord, which also gained the support of many tech companies seeing that working with it was good business, it was infrequently mentioned in the 2016 campaign.

While Sercretary of State, Kerry, working with Mike Bloomberg who was associated with the UN then, to have mayors of big cities across the globe meet to compare notes on what worked and what didn't on climate change. These were INTERNATIONAL meetings -- so while it goes without saying that Tillerson, with a State Department that Trump is turning into a shaddow of itself, is not going to lead this - if the cities found it useful, it will continue without the SD. Kerry also had conferences with scientists on this, encouraging them to teach him and other diplomats what was possible. At this point, the Paris Accord and countries across the world reconferming their seriousness is itself the force that will drive the market to develop the new technologies. Silicon Valley and other US high tech hot spots are not going to drop out because Trump is uninterested.

One observation I had watching and reading coverage from Paris was that the US and countries like China and India were the key to Paris -- because we, like the developing countries -- were the international laggards on the accepting the responsibility to act on this. Gore and Kerry were among the small group of people in the US who fought hard for the US to be on the right side of this issue. Neither will become President, but on this issue, they drove the US to finally put the US on the right side of this issue.

One good thing is that the US - in spite of Trump - is still on target to meet its goals. Let's hope that technology delivers the profits even beyond what was hoped for leading US businesses to select green energy because it is not more expensive.

[murielm99]

2. Hillary Clinton may be the best President

we never had. She was certainly the most qualified and experienced. I am with her still.

[karynnj]

7. On climate change, both Gore and Kerry have experience and accomplishments that exceeded Hillary's

Copenhagen was not a good summit. Kerry was told when he talked to Obama in 2012 that there was little chance of a diplomatic accomplishment on climate change. Within a year, largely from Kerry's decades of contacts with the Chinese negotiators (including going to the Bali conference), Obama announced the US/China pact, which led to a Lima pact, and the Paris Accord. Since Paris, he led on expanding the Montreal protocol to include HFCs, and an international agreement limiting emissions from planes.

I also think that "most qualified and experienced" was partly campaign rhetoric. I can make a good case that both Al Gore, VP for 8 years and a Congressman and Senator -- or Kerry, a war hero, the most eloquent anti VN war activist, Lt Governor (where he was instrumental in pushing for the NE governors' acid rain cap and trade that became the model for the successful Bush 1 legislation) and a Senator, who investigated the Contras and BCCI were at the times they ran easily equal to Hillary Clinton when she ran - later in her career than they did. (Not to mention, comparing their qualifications when they ran ignores Gore's powerful education effort on climate change and Kerry's stint as arguably the best Secretary of State in the last 50 years were not considered.)

There is no need to compare our nominees over different years. These three leaders never ran against each other, so there is no reason to diminish any of them.

[DK504]

8. I still have a bee in my bonnet

about Nader voters that claimed Nader would be the 1st Green President. WTF? Those that spewed shit like this helped put war criminals into the white house.

Gore WAS the only real greenie in the country. He was the only one that had concrete plans to help reduce green house gases and green technology. Nader made zero sense while Al Gore had complete and rounded out plans for real progress. I am still furious about what they did to us.

[karynnj]

10. Gore chaired some of the earliest hearings on climate change

Back in the mid to late 1980s, he (and Kerry who was on his sub committee (of the Commerce committee) were already on that issue. He went to Kyoto when they made that agreement, which was never even submitted to the US Senate. (Some use a vote that prescribed some features an agreement must have - Byrd/Hagel - that passed before Kyoto was finished as a vote on Kyoto. It was only in the sense that the Kyoto treaty did not meet those guidelines.)

I assume that had Gore won, he would have done many of things that Obama did via the EPA at least 8 years earlier. I also suspect that he would have done at least as much as Bush (with the help of Kerry (!!)) did at the last minute at Bali -- possibly making it possible to do at Copenhagen what succeeded at Paris.

[murielm99]

11. It wasn't an argument.

It was more of a comparison, just like you did. I am happy to see that you wrote a post listing Gore and Kerry's accomplishments and strengths.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. We belong to

Turtle Island. It doesn't belong to us. We can never own it. We are stewards.

Don't know if I will see the film. But I am glad Mr. Gore made it.

Thanks for sharing this, brooklynite. ♡

[joet67]

4. Ok but I really am worried we have already run out of time to do much. From my limited

understanding, doesn't the bad stuff (carbon and whatever else) continue to rise for years or decades after we would (theoretically) stop polluting? (I loved the original movie btw- well, as much as one can love such a grim prospect)

[NNadir]

5. We are using more dangerous fossil fuels than ever, and nothing, absolutely nothing...

...will be done to stop it from getting worse. Humanity will stuff the last molecule of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that it can stuff into it.

I remarked on this just this evening.

ORNL Carbon Dioxide Information Center to Shut 9/30/17. View the Emissions Data While You Can.

Predictably, this data - and what is "truth" without data - generated zero commentary here.

While those on the right do what right wingers do about everything and lie and say it isn't happening, we on the left are not much better. We watch movies and drive or fly to big rallies, but we insist that this enormous engineering problem can be addressed by wishful thinking.

What we think is the "solution" hasn't worked, isn't working, and won't work.

There is no will and no intention to get serious on this issue. Enjoy Mr. Gore's movie. I'll skip it. I've studied the problem too deeply and no, I'm not going to drive to a theater to watch "Inconvenient Truth: The Sequel."

[Initech]

9. "Almost every country in the world has agreed to do certain things"

Except for one, and I think you know which one!