was the movie "An inconvient truth" the catalyst for all the new eco-friendly inititives the govt is favoring?

Answer 1

It never hurts to put a international face to an issue... I believe that Al Gores book/movie as done a lot to further the action taken by world governments. Unfortunately like so many other things it will blow over in the next 6 to 9 months unless on or more of the governments in a position to do something act on what they have learned... Australia has made a great step buy should follow it up by ratifying the kyoto agreement. The USA is going to be the sticking point and although I am a republican I believe that it will not be untill we have an administration change that the US gets onboard and starts to do something about the current environmental issues.

Answer 2

Fad following, and BS is the catalyst, the first solar heating system in the USA was patented by a lady in California in the 1910 (Mrs Little), so the government has acknowledge the facts for almost a hundred years and chosen the easy, taxable method over the slighlty more complicated, not taxable method, we'll all be dead before anybody in the government makes a eco-anything inititive.

Answer 3

Not really. "An Inconvenient Truth" has certainly raised awareness--but there have been efforts to start acting to address climate change issues for some time. Probably the most important immediate factor is the change from a GOP to a Democratic control of Congress--that has openedthe way for environmental policy action.

Answer 4

It helped, but I expect that the actual events in the
ecological world are more of a catalyst. That is, the
reports on rampant melting, storms, etc, have made
people who say that it isn't happening lose all
credibility.

If you want to be really cynical, think of it this way:
Without credibility, people have no power. Therefore, to
stay in power, the government had to change its
initiatives.

Answer 5

The environmental movement was already gaining strength, the movie just added to it. I think its great that the movie put the issue into the spotlight, and might have made the government more interested in listening to people's concerns.