Gore to Lay Out Unprecedented Challenge on Energy and Climate
Skrivet av Live Earth 16 juli, 2008 - 16:53
On Thursday, July 17th, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore outlined his bold vision for the future of America’s energy needs at D.A.R. Constitution Hall. The speech offered a new way of thinking about our energy production and consumption and a new sense of what is possible when we choose to work together. On Thursday, July 17th, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore outlined his bold vision for the future of America’s energy needs at D.A.R. Constitution Hall. The speech offered a new way of thinking about our energy production and consumption and a new sense of what is possible when we choose to work together.
Gore has a challenge for us. Gore believes that in 10 years America could be running on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity. He purposes that we tap into our innovative skills and join forces to build a more secure energy future. Issues, like the economy and our environmental and national security crises, are all tied together with one very important problem: “our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels.” With a change in direction and active participation in exploration and discovery, Americans will once again change history.
Someone had to say what Al
Someone had to say what Al Gore is saying; someone has to be intellectually honest and willing to speak out and clearly as Al Gore is doing.
Emergent and convergent global challenges, ominously looming before the family of humanity on the far horizon, threaten the future of human civilizations, life as know it and the efficacy of Earth as a fit place for human habitation:
the human overpopulation of Earth;
the pending loss of adequate fossil fuel reserves and other vital energy sources due to unrestrained international plundering;
the dissipation of limited resources due to reckless per-capita overconsumption;
the problems of global warming in particular and climate change more generally; and
the insufficiently bridled pollution of air, land and water as well as precipitating irreversible degradation of the planet's frangible ecosystems services due to relentless industrialization and unregulated economic globalization.
Who knows, perhaps necessary change is in the offing.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php