Wade this January 22, let’s not forget the tragic reality of nearly 50 million babies who have lost their lives due to this Supreme Court decision. He has many times already.Īs we approach the 34th anniversary of Roe vs. God is eager to forgive the sin of abortion. Of course, forgiveness is an option for Jennifer and millions of others. It’s not the right choice, but the temptation for many Americans faced with difficult life problems is to short cut the solution at a grave, moral expense. It seemed like the easy route and the right choice. Rather than face the challenging life situation of bringing an unwanted child to term, she made her difficult life problem just go away. Instead, her solution was to kill her child, but believe, contrary to the evidence, that she was just terminating a mass of cells. Becoming a mother (although she already was one if she was pregnant) would have cost her too much. Believing the unborn is a human being would have been an inconvenient truth. This was the real reason she wouldn’t change her mind.
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Of course, it came as no surprise to me that Jennifer wouldn’t change her mind about her abortion even if she learned her unborn baby was a human being.Įarlier in the program, the TV show host explained that Jennifer chose to have an abortion because she wasn’t ready to become a mother and having a baby would have hampered her career. At one point, Jennifer was talking to a pastor who heads up the maternity home.
I was watching FX’s TV show called “30 Days” and the episode featured Jennifer, a pro-choice activist, living for 30 days at a Christian, pro-life maternity home. I honor what Gore has done, but it frustrates me that he doesn’t adequately portray the incredible opportunity - for business, jobs, communities as well as the planet - that’s possible from taking on the climate challenge.Jennifer, a staunch pro-choice advocate from Atlanta, thought for a brief moment about the pastor’s question: “If it could be proven to you that the unborn is a human being, would that change your mind about your abortion?” Jennifer quickly responded, “no, it wouldn’t change anything. I’m not a murderer.” He promised to leave the audience with some optimism by the end of his presentation, but that optimism turned out to be a few words about solar energy and electric cars. In 2014, I saw him give the latest version of his climate spiel, at ’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. It certainly drew attention to the topic, and to Gore, but his relentless doom-and-gloom message has been challenging for many, leaving a lot of people feeling angry, scared and powerless. "I think the movie's impact has cut both ways. He also saw another Gore presentation more recently and shared the following observation: GreenBiz chairman and executive editor Joel Makower saw Gore give an early presentation about climate change, the basis for what became the movie, at the Beacon Theater in New York on a blistering cold day in January 2004. It may not have bridged the political divide associated with climate change that still lingers in the United States in fact, some may argue it increased the divide.
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The movie marked an important moment in the dialogue about climate change. Al Gore’s courage and commitment to science-based decision-making cemented my conviction that climate change is the greatest challenge facing our society - and businesses - today. "An Inconvenient Truth" was released one year before I began my career as sustainability professional. Ten years later the retailer continues to push green alternatives even if the consumer education has become less overt.Įliza Clark, Director of Sustainability and Environmental, Andersen Corp.: I was impressed with Walmart’s attempt to combine climate change education with a "free-prize-inside" to increase consumer’s energy efficiency. Visiting family in rural upstate New York, I stopped in the local Walmart and found the film packaged with a Philips CFL light bulb. The a-ha moment for me really came that fall with the release of the DVD. I was preparing to launch a new green service for AMR Research (since acquired by Gartner Group) and was familiar with much of the science.
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the Academy Award-winning film "An Inconvenient Truth." To commemorate this anniversary, Paramount Pictures and Participant Media have launched the "Share Your Truth" campaign, a series of videos from environmental leaders, business owners and government officials around the world telling personal stories of the impact the film had on them.Īs I look back 10 years from today, my first viewing of the film doesn’t elicit a "where-were-you-when" moment.