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Goracle’s Travels: En-Visioning Global Communities for Climate Change in An Inconvenient Truth

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Abstract: The uniquely global phenomenon of climate change requires a radical rethinking of dominant categories of social belonging and responsibility. One barrier facing policy-makers, activists, and scientists alike in their attempts to combat climate change is the lack of a coherent and persuasive discourse of global identification that connects geographically, culturally, and economically diverse communities. This essay explores one successful attempt at creating climate change awareness, Al Gore’s 2006 documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, in terms of its rhetorical appeals to global forms of identification, noting specifically how the film articulates common places wherein the audience might locate more global forms of identity and community.____________________________________________________________________Resumen: el fenómeno global el cambio climático requiere una reconceptualización radical de las categorías dominantes de adscripción social y responsabilidad. Uno de los obstáculos con los que se encuentran los legisladores, activistas y científicos en su empeño por combatir el cambio climático consiste en la ausencia de un discurso persuasivo y coherente de identificación global, capaz e apelar a comunidades geográfica, cultural y económicamente diversas. Este artículo explora el documental Una verdad incómoda (2006), una de las manifestaciones exitosas en promover la concienciación sobre el cambio climático, en especial las figuras retóricas encaminadas a conseguir modelos globales de identificación, así como la articulación de tropos que permitan al público conectar con construcciones globales e identidad y comunidad.

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