by Worldchanging Austin local blogger, GFoster: Will Wynn, the Mayor of Austin, publicly presented his homegrown adaptation of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” slideshow for the first time on Thursday May 31st to an audience in City Council Chambers. This was the first of many presentations Mayor Wynn is scheduled to make as one of 1,000 citizens trained by Mr. Gore’s Climate Project. The Mayor’s presentation includes graphics, information, and rhetorical styles drawn directly from the hard-earned successes of Mr. Gore’s internationally-honed presentation. The Frost Bank Tower by Wylie Maercklein Wynn is able to poignantly bring the realities of climate change disconcertingly close to home with examples drawn from the everyday city environment. While talking about an image taken from the International Space Station which shows the troposphere as the merest thin protective shield about our planet, Wynn says, “…it’s only twelve miles from here where I’m standing straight up to the top of the sky. That’s from here to the Arboretum.” Or again, when helping his audience visualize the massive height of the (now collapsed) Larsen B ice shelf: “…as tall and half again as the Frost Bank Tower.” Wynn draws upon the audience’s still tender experiences of the… (more)
(Posted by WorldChanging Team in Climate Change at 2:34 PM)