THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT

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USA 2024 - Director: Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk - Original language: English - Subtitles: Untitled - Length: 96 min.

"Those who believe we are powerless against the greenhouse effect have forgotten the effect of the White House," said President Bush senior in 1988. But his promise of a green turnaround remained unfulfilled. The oil industry launched a targeted campaign that sowed doubt about climate science and stoked economic fears. The USA was on the cusp of a global climate policy - and decided against it. Made exclusively from archive footage, THE WHITE HOUSE shows how lobbying and targeted disinformation set the course for decades of inaction. With news clips, documents and speeches, the film demonstrates that predictions were made almost 40 years ago about what is now a fatal reality. Pablo Bücheler