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Al Gore's Energy speech NYU

       COMMENTS ON AL GORES NEW PERSUASIVE ` RENEWABLE ENERGY MANIFESTO'  Speech NYU 9-18-06

`Reduce pollution, waste & greenhouse gases heating Earth'    

comment micheal sunanda

Al Gore presented a new National Vision,  the most clear coherent inspiring  overview of Global~warming & greenhouse~gases from man-made tech, natural sources & solutions a democrat has even made?  His AIT movie lacked many practical solutions, but implied we must conserve energy, stop wasting & polluting our delicate natural environments or suffer the consequences of more terrible ecospasms.   Now he reminds me of James Lovelock the "Gaia theory" guru's new book "The Revenge of Gaia" - but Gore has more balanced solutions, both knowing debates will be argued for years on them.  But Al seems aiming for President in '08, maybe? & he'll keep promoting saving nature, energy & our health from vast pollution.
           So now Al is very pro-renewable energy sources to reduce our pollution causing climate-crisis ASAP.   He's promoting more practical-options for US energy efficient future. I've ever read or heard in 25 years.  He omits true costs of the energy options now in favor of a spirited plea to for `positive visions' of conserving energy in renewable ways on large scale.  It seems better than pro-conservation Carter programs on national scale.  Gore even promotes abolishing US income tax & taxing pollution instead, brilliant.  But  I believe `climate & oil crisis' will have to hit hard & deep first before we localize, naturalize & power-down like Cuba did in their `long emergency'.  Of course Al's pushing `US energy independence' from importing expensive oil from mid-east & Venezuela.
         He's promoting small windmills, solar power PV panels,  ethanol &  bio-diesel fuels for hybrid cars.   He mentions `nuclear power' to replace very polluting coal-burning electric power generation, ignoring the toxic nuclear waste & dangers of it.  He says Nukes cost a fortune taking years to build & carry risks of atomic bombs & terrorism, while ignoring the `terrorism' issue.  He recommends "Carbon saving" & sinking/burying it.  That's linked to European & American auto, gas, coal, oil & nuclear industries becoming more energy efficient & less polluting, being "taxed for C02 production".  However he omitted most local options of real energy conservation at home & community cooperation.  Those are happening more in cities & towns tree-planting & recycling now more voluntary than the Feds  who keep paying for war-making "Toxic Texan & Corps" killer mega-profits.  
           Gore's solutions pushes for energy industry conversion to renewables from polluting, the worst being coal.  He suggests building with & retro-fitting energy efficient insulations & "carbon zero/neutral" industries & business.  His proposing petro-fuels from vast farming crops of biomass seems wasting needed farm-lands for food, not to burn fueling our mania for long -fast transit.  Like Lovelock, he contradicts himself sometimes,  on Nukes & farming.  We need to stop deforesting our wilderness, but  they're publishing books on paper from trees logged from  wilderness  that's needed for cooling earth.  
         I don't expect his perfection, with dramatic prose to motivate our awareness & desire to stop wasting.   We must  become more efficient - recycling massively.  Al misses how we recycled during WW2 when `hemp farming for fiber' was legalized for strong rope & clothe in US military.  A 1000 options are possible, most are local.  I hope Gore knows about organic farming in Cuba & US,  instead of farming  biofuels & agribiz chemo-farming polluting our waters, soil, food & air.  We need state sponsored organic farming & recycling resources.

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