At one level in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the follow-up to 2006’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, former vp Al Gore quotes poet Wallace Stevens: “After the final no there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world depends.” And it’s Gore’s lifelong quest to get resistant cities, international locations, and continents to say sure to renewable vitality and no to fossil fuels so as to drastically curb international warming and actually save the planet.

Much of the brand new movie follows Gore as he tirelessly travels from nation to nation for his Climate Leadership Training seminars, displaying its keen members how dire international warming has turn out to be within the ten years since he gave his now-famous slideshow presentation. He persuasively connects the dots between melting glaciers in Greenland to rising sea ranges and flooded streets in Miami, and between record-level warmth and drought across the globe to “Noah-like storms” and the unfold of the Zika virus. It’s all carried out in an easy-to-digest however compelling method, and Gore’s ardour is infectious.

Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk neatly make their documentary as a lot about Gore as local weather change. The “recovering politician,” as Gore jokingly describes himself, provides levity all through with folksy humor, and even poses for a good-natured photograph beneath a GOP signal with the Republican mayor of Georgetown, TX, “the reddest city in the reddest county in Texas,” which now makes use of renewable vitality for 90 p.c of its energy as an alternative of fossil fuels. Gore is handled like royalty all over the place he goes, and that features Paris, the place he attends the 2015 Climate Change Conference. One main holdout on the convention is India, whose leaders are averse to switching to wash vitality and reluctant to signal the settlement. But Gore received’t take no for a solution, and so he calls up SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive to make a strategic cope with India. Needless to say, Gore ultimately will get the sure he needs, though his triumph suffers a setback when President Trump withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. But the ever-resilient Gore is undeterred, and An Inconvenient Sequel ends with the next emblazoned onscreen: “If President Trump won’t lead, the American people will.”

Gore emphasizes that the conflict on international warming may be received if bizarre residents rally and demand that their leaders spend money on renewable vitality. But, he admits, it’s not taking place quick sufficient. “The next generation,” he says, “if they live in a world of floods and storms and rising seas and droughts and refugees by the millions escaping unlivable conditions, destabilizing countries around the world, they would be well justified in looking back and asking, ‘What were you thinking?’”

It’s a very good query, and one Gore powerfully places forth in his inconvenient new movie.