An Inconvenient truth - Summary

In the American documentary film “an inconvenient truth” which had been presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore. The film talks about the problem of global warming and what resulted from it. It also contained some ways to prevent the problem. Al Gore says that he became more interested in global warming issue after what had happened to his son and sister.

At the first part of the film, Al Gore shows us some charts about the relation between annual temperature and carbon dioxide levels. Due to the fact of the increase of carbon dioxide and temperatures are caused by pollution, people would know that global warming is caused by pollution. Al Gore says that the temperature in the earth is increasing; glaciers are vanishing; climates in a lot of places are becoming abnormal; so many natural disasters happen such as drought of lakes and flooding in a lot of countries recently.

At the second part of the film, Al Gore says that the catastrophic consequences global warming will happen if people do not pay attention in order to prevent it. As numerous glaciers and ice are melting, the sea level is increasing. This increase would make a lot of big cities such as New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, would be under the sea level on someday. Because of melting of the arctic glaciers the current will stop. Europe temperature would be dropped dramatically and the climate would be very cold like the ice age.

At the last part of the film, Al Gore illustrates that there are several ways to prevent global warming. The First way he stated was that people have to consider taking mass transit and saving water. He also stated that people should ask government to reconsider their environment rules and watch out carefully about things that may cause pollution.