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An interview with a whacko nut....

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5 questions for global warming activist Laurie David

By Todd Hartman, Rocky Mountain News
May 3, 2007
Global warming guru Laurie David, producer of the Academy Award-winning
documentary An Inconvenient Truth starring Al Gore, pops into town tonight to
speak at the Colorado Convention Center. She's here to wrap up a month of
"green" events sponsored by the Denver Public Library and Greenprint Denver,
the city's program of environmental initiatives. The event is sold out.
1 What's it like to be the producer of an Academy Award-winning film?

What's amazing to me is how many people have seen that movie and how many
people are buying DVDs. Every single article you see (on global warming) now
mentions the movie, and it's been personally gratifying to see.

2 What was it like to work with Al Gore?

By the time I was done working with him, I was begging him to adopt me. He's
like a father figure to me, one of my heroes. He's so charming and lovely and
smart and funny. He makes fun of himself; he's got a great sense of humor. He's
dry and he laughs at other people's jokes.

3 If you could have dinner with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who called global
warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," what would
you say to him?

There's something in my heart that makes me believe if I could get 10 minutes
with these guys, I could change their mind. I would love to have dinner with
Inhofe. We're at the point where we have to do something big to stop global
warming. I would want him to watch the movie. I would pop the popcorn. I would
pick up the check (for dinner).

4 So how do you react to the Bush administration's stance on global warming?

It's terrifying. I've spent a lot of time saying to people that I believe the
changes are going to come when these guys are still in office. I don't
personally believe we have two years to waste before we start solving this. I'm
not focused on '08. I'm focused on right now. Here's a perfect analogy: if you
had a choice between being in a 5 mile-per-hour car accident or a 50
mile-per-hour car accident, what would you choose? I would choose everything we
have to do avoid the larger collision ahead.

5 What changes have you made in your own life?

I don't believe everyone has to do everything. I don't do everything. It's
about everyone doing something. I have changed as many lightbulbs as I could to
(higher efficiency) bulbs. I started a new idling rule at the school carpool
lane (cars dropping and picking up kids can't idle their engines more than 30
seconds). I bring a garment bag to the dry cleaners (instead of having the dry
cleaners wrap her clothes in petroleum-based plastic). I drive a hybrid

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