(Gasp!)

Via THR:

Actor Mark Ruffalo — part of a new group of entertainment leaders called Hollywood United for a Healthy California that is pushing governor Jerry Brown to move the state away from fossil fuels — is now setting his sights on President Obama.

The Spotlight star, in the midst of kicking off an awards campaign, has signed on to narrate and executive produce the documentary Dear President Obama, a film about the administration’s energy and climate change policies due out next year. The movie’s director is Jon Bowermaster, who’s helmed films documenting his own eco-adventures for National Geographic and whose most recent project, After The Spill, focuses on post-Katrina Louisiana.

Ruffalo — a longtime environmental activist opposing the process of hydro-fracking to extract natural gas — signed on to Dear President Obama because he finds Obama’s approach to climate change “insane.”

“When you have the president saying that climate change is absolutely for real and we must do something about it, and then in the next breath he says we must start drilling in the Arctic circle even, there’s a huge disconnect, a cognitive dissonance. His own scientists are telling him we have to keep that carbon in the ground otherwise we are doomed,” says Ruffalo.

The film, says the actor, will “implore President Obama to stop this drill, baby, drill, all of the above energy policy that he has taken our country on. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t keep pushing to take all the carbon out of the earth, which will be burned, while at the same time saying you believe in climate science.” […]

Ruffalo places Obama and Brown among the ranks of political forces obstructing progress on climate change. The two politicians, he says, “are almost worse than climate change deniers. They are not honest in another way that’s much more harmful to us. They are taking the political will that we need to make these changes and they are dulling the knife edge of it. They are making people go to sleep. They are making people think that dealing with climate change is being taken care of. In fact, renewable energy is going to be useless if we pull all of this carbon out of the ground and burn it.”