Al Gore and the IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize 4

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   stevenearlsalmony Posted 11:49 pm
   11 Oct 2007

   Three Cheers for Al Gore and the IPCCMore than ever before, we need not only to listen but also to hear what Al Gore, R.K. Pachauri and 3000 scientists of IPCC are reporting to humanity about the threat of pernicious forms of climate change.
   It appears that my elder generation is dominated by denialists and naysayers who are busy mortgaging and threatening the future of our children and coming generations.  Unfortunately, we are choosing to remain religiously focused upon the endless accumulation of material wealth, the unrestrained increase in per capita consumption of limited resources, and the continuous consolidation of political, economic and military power.
   Despite all the cascading rhetoric to the contrary, we need not look far to see that money, power and privilege for ourselves, for our bought-and-paid-for politicians, and for our newly-minted rich minions are the primary object of life among many too many of us.
   Regardless of the human-forced calamities -- derived from per human over-consumption, unbridled economic globalization and skyrocketing global human numbers -- that might befall those who come after us, we choose to live large, many of us having celebrity status, in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth. Please understand that our imperious reserve masks the single-minded pursuit of material wealth, power, and privilege to profligately consume and recklessly ignore the requirements of practical reality. Think of our 'rights' to our "over the top" lifestyle as a raison d'etre.
   When my not-so-great generation has completed its mission on Earth, I fear young people will look back in anger and utter disbelief at the things we have done, failed to do and called exercises of virtue.
   Hopefully wealthy and powerful people, the ones who dominate and manage the activities of the global political economy, make lifestyle changes before too much time has not been wasted, too much of the environment irreversibly degraded, too many species massively extirpated, many too many resources recklessly dissipated and too much of the world we inhabit destroyed by the patently unsustainable lifestyles of the rich and famous.

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   gohlkus Posted 3:49 am
   12 Oct 2007

   Congratulations to Vice President GoreThough it's not exactly the Nobel Peace Prize, last year Vice President Gore also won a California League of Conservation Voters Environmental Leadership Award....
   Congratulations to Al Gore and to the IPCC for their work and their courage.

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   cgirardeau Posted 7:52 am
   12 Oct 2007

   Gore's donating prize $I was at the press conference at the Alliance for Climate Protection  in Palo Alto this morning. Gore said he'll donate 100% of his share of the Nobel prize money to this nonprofit to support their efforts to sway global public opinion in favor of getting together to solve the climate crisis. Unfortunately, Gore didn't take any press questions. I really wanted to hear him talk about the connection between global cooperation to solve climate change and promoting peace. Kudos to the Nobel committee for making that connection on the global stage. If you want to hear my brief podcast, and Gore's comments, you'll find it on my new show, Earth Stories.
   
   And yeah, I know I got the full name of the IPCC wrong, re-posting the redacted podcast asap.

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   Yrrab Posted 3:56 pm
   15 Oct 2007

   Al GoreHow many millions has Al made on this subject? Everyone wants to praise him for the attention he has brought to global warming. This and his flawed "evidence" gets him an award? Amazing. Yes the climate is changing. I see this and the chickens under the porch see this. What he should get an award for is his acting ability. Does he still keep a humongous house that devours more energy than a third world country? Yes. Typical liberal hypocrisy. YOU need to change but not me. This is how we that really are concerned for the environment get the label enviro wacko. I don't want to see the Glaciers leave Glacier National Park. I have written to congress, I ask questions,I walk places that are close by. Enjoy your prize Al. Take it home and admire it and please stay there and be quiet.

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