At one point in Al Gore’s seminal 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” the former vice president laments that his tobacco-farming parents didn’t stop raising tobacco until after their beloved daughter Nancy died of lung cancer in Tennessee.
“It’s just human nature to take time to connect the dots,” Gore says in the film. “But … there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.”
All these years later, many anxious Americans hope President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have fully connected the dots — politically and morally — on climate change. As Gore suggests in the film, global warming is our planet’s own late-stage disease. Terminal consequences are all but guaranteed unless we apply shock treatment now.
