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An Inconvenient Movement

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Near the beginning of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel, he kicks off a training session on climate communication by sharing an anecdote. While he was sitting in a restaurant, a woman slowly walked past him, stared, and then walked back again, staring just as intently. “If you dyed your hair black, you’d look just like Al Gore,” she told the gray-haired Gore. “Why thank you,” he replied.” “Sound just like him too,” the woman added.

I assume that Gore wanted to offer his listeners a bit of humor before overwhelming them with images of

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