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"The film does make you feel quite empowered in a way. At least it makes you feel like it's worth doing stuff," he says. "But yet, having thought all of that, my second thought was, 'I'm crap at all of this. I don't really understand any of it'." Watson says he took some comfort in the realisation he would not be the only person to feel this way - that is, keen to help but not quite sure what to do. "So I thought it would be nice to have a green movement that wasn't too hard-core and that rather than getting bogged down by the hopelessness of it all, just try to sort of 'have a fair go', as they say in this country."Comedian Watson then becomes part of the problem by further spreading Gore's misinformation as "fact":
Last September Watson was among 150 volunteers in Melbourne whom Al Gore personally trained to be climate-change speakers. "It was extremely engrossing," he says of Gore's workshop. "It was two to three days of hard-core lectures about environmental science, so it could have been incredibly boring, but he does have a way of making it interesting, and he's a very, very compelling speaker."
Gore, slide by slide, talked them through his lecture, so the popular stand-up now has the responsibility of presenting his own, not-for-profit climate-change lectures.
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