The inconvenient truth of environmental policy-making

When it comes to climate change, Al Gore’s academy award winning film “An Inconvenient Truth” may well have opened a policy window. The documentary met with resounding success amid growing concern on the effects of man’s industrial activity.

As voters start pressuring aspiring candidates to the Presidency to include the issue into their agenda, the future of environmental policy-making seems prosperous indeed.

Yet, while climate change demands bold and swift action, the consensus needed to enact such a policy leaves something to be desired. As a recent article on the limits of Gore’s documentary suggests, designing a policy on a subject that wields so much controversy and whose consequences are uncertain will prove a difficult.