Ahead of Sunday's premiere of The Age of Stupid, an environmental doomsday docudrama, he compared those who do not accept that human-induced global warming is occurring with Holocaust deniers, and said the evidence for global change is now beyond doubt.
The doomsday environmental headlines in Weinbergs day concerned nuclear power plants.
The Vice President's environmental rhetoric occasionally employs off-the-charts doomsday exaggeration, but as a national leader, Mr. Gore has taken actions that have been temperate and sensible.
Even so, this 86-minute breeze through civilization, its history and self-made discontents from the Canadian filmmakers Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks — which concentrates on the present and future costs of familiar environmental and economic catastrophes — is very much a doomsday documentary.
He tries to stave off what he terms "the Demon of Melodramatic Prophesies" which can bedevil writing about the present, yet having already identified as intrinsic to virtual existence a collapsing of the future and the past into a permanently digitised "now", he can't avoid the doomsday intersection of human connectivity and environmental degradation.
The risks to life on this planet are as frightening as any doomsday scenario, both as a global environmental and as a security issue.
For many safety and environmental innovations over the last 40 years, the industry has predicted doomsday.
The author, perhaps unintentionally, provides somewhat of a doomsday scenario for a number of the environmental problems covered.
In a report published last year, the US Institute of Medicine described antimicrobial resistance as "a global public health and environmental catastrophe", while the WHO called the rise of NDM-1 a "doomsday scenario of a world without antibiotics".
The transition of the environmental movement over the last few decades has shifted from one of doomsday stories to one focusing on catalyzing change.
I look closely at the environmental impact of devices because I spend every day imagining future landfills- musing on doomsday fantasies.
