Is An Inconvenient Truth (2006) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 81 / 100 (WOKE-leaning (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Al Gore, 2006.
6 votes: 83% WOKE, 17% CHUD.
Why: Climate change advocacy by a Democrat
This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating changes in temperature and precipitation patterns worldwide. Using easy-to-grasp graphics and revealing before-and-after photos, he shows how glaciers and ice shelves are disappearing all over the globe with alarming speed, pointing to profound cl…