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Telluride Doc ‘The White House Effect’ Reveals How George H.W. Bush Administration Deliberately Destroyed an Opportunity to Stop Climate Change
'The White House Effect' directors discuss climate change documentary ahead of Telluride Film Festival premiere.
In “The White House Effect,” directors Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk’s document how a chance to take real action on global warming was not just squandered but deliberately undermined by the George H.W. In the film, the schism between action and denial plays out in the Oval Office as Bush’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency William Riley and his chief of staff John Sununu face off over setting limits on fossil fuel emissions. It never dawned on us to tell the history of how we got to where we are today until we read this great New York Times Magazine article by Nathaniel Rich called “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” about what happened in the 1980s.
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