The danger, of course, is that viewership for the film, which is looking for distribution, will divide along red state/blue state lines. Gore does make a strong argument that the need to address global warming is not a political but a moral issue. What Gore strives to make crystal clear to anyone in opposition is that the tools and methods to reverse these calamitous changes are at hand -- no new inventions required -- and that the economic consequences of tackling the problem are positive rather than negative.

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