An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Page #5
which is just waking people up.
There were only 50
of them in the beginning.
But I look back
on that first training
and it makes me smile,
because they were real pioneers,
in my way of thinking about it.
This is the first picture
that any of us ever saw
of the Earth from space.
It was taken
on Christmas Eve, 1968,
during the Apollo 8 mission.
And this was the first time
that human beings
left near-Earth orbit
and went far enough into space
to see the planet whole,
floating in the void.
And I've always
started my slideshows
with those pictures.
When people can see
the Earth from space,
they naturally find it easier
to feel a connection
to our shared home.
And the last image
from the Apollo program,
The Blue Marble,
the one picture of the entire
Earth fully illuminated,
completely changed the way
people think about the planet.
It energized the modern
environmental movement.
I put that picture
on my office wall
in the West Wing
of the White House,
"Hey, I've been looking
at this same picture here,"
"and I'm just wondering
if there's another one."
I thought, what if we could
Might that help to build
the commitment people have
for saving the climate balance?
And that's when I learned
there's really not another one.
That's what led to the idea
of the DSCOVR satellite.
Not only for these pictures,
but because of
the amazing scientific
data gathering that you can do
from that special point
in space.
There was opposition
in the Congress.
I was about to run
for president,
and that may have had
something to do with it.
But once I finally
got it approved,
other instruments
And one was the crucial
early-warning device
for solar storms
that threaten electric
utility grids and pipelines.
gave it a launch date.
And then after
and the inauguration
of Bush and Cheney,
they canceled
the satellite launch.
Please stand for the invocation.
Reverend Graham.
The new administration,
they didn't really realize
they were also canceling
this solar storm
early-warning system.
And the businesses
that depend on it
started making a lot of noise.
And they proposed
to resolve that quandary
by taking all of
the climate instruments
and the camera
off of the satellite,
replacing them with
the equivalent of sandbags
and only leaving
the one instrument
that these powerful industries
wanted to be put into orbit.
I thought,
"Wow, that is extremism."
By the end of it,
this satellite was
put in storage.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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