Everything’s Cool is a toxic comedy about the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action... Global Warming. The good news: America finally gets global warming; the chasm is closing and the debate is over. The bad news: the United States, the country that will determine the fate of the globe, must transform its fossil fuel based economy fast, (like in a minute).While the industry funded naysayers sing what just might be their swan song of scientific doubt and deception, a group of self-appointed global warming messengers are on a life or death quest to find the iconic image, proper language, and points of leverage that will help the public go from understanding the urgency of the problem to creating the political will necessary to push for a new energy economy. This is bigger than changing your light bulbs.Everything’s Cool follows the struggle of these very dedicated, sometimes a bit depressed, but always compassionate and passionate global-warming messengers. Their journey turns into a snapshot of what might very well become known as those last years of U.S. global warming denial that halcyon time when America finally ‘got it’ and then had about three minutes to join the rest of the globe in dealing with it.
Along the way, we chronicle the tenacious swan song of the messengers from the other side. These are the fossil fuel-funded skeptics who, like sprinters at the end of a marathon, are pushing even harder to maintain their perverse campaign of injecting doubt and uncertainty into what is clearly a dwindling public debate about global warming.
Dwindling, but not dead yet thanks to the insatiable appetite of our media to deliver a balanced story, these die-hard naysayer-messengers can still be heard, seen, and read on radio, TV, and in newspapers nationwide as they desperately plead their tired argument that nobody’s really certain what causes global warming and nobody’s really certain what could be the results of a warmer world.
We follow the country and our global warming messengers through an extraordinary three years of transformation, from 2003 to the eve of 2007.
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