In December 2018 Gore kicked off his live 24-hour broadcast calling for solutions to man-made global warming in early December as waves of protests against the very types of policies Gore champions rocked major French cities
Scare the public to get their attention- truth be damned!
The world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better shape then we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. In large part, it is because of our negative thoughts, our instincts to notice the bad more than the good. We are subjected to a never-ending cascade of negative news from across the world. So says Hans Rosling in his recent book Factfulness. 1