Al Gore wins the Nobel Prize
by Jerome Armstrong, Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 04:10:10 AM EDT
Earlier this year, an Emmy and Oscar award, then a NYT's #1 bestseller, and now the Nobel Peace Prize. His statement:
I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis--a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
What's left for Al Gore to do is decide this year is if he wants to lead the way as President.Update [2007-10-12 9:14:6 by Todd Beeton]: I thought the reasoning behind awarding the Nobel peace prize to Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was worth noting, since it eloquently expresses the nexus between the health of the planet and the peace in which the people who live on it exist. From NobelPrize.org:...for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.And what about the elephant in the room, the question as to whether Gore will try to parlay this award into a presidential run? Don't bet on it. From The AP:
Two Gore advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to share his thinking, said the award will not make it more likely that he will seek the presidency. If anything, the Peace Prize makes the rough-and-tumble of a presidential race less appealing to Gore, they said, because now he has a huge, international platform to fight global warming and may not want to do anything to diminish it.And from CNN:
A source involved in Gore's past political runs told CNN that he definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to run for president.But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled by Sen. Hillary Clinton, said the source. If the senator from New York had faltered at all, Gore would take a serious look at entering the race, the source said. But Gore has calculated that Clinton is unstoppable, according to the source.CNN and The Wall St. Journal have web polls asking people if they think Gore deserves the honor. The results are essentially inverses of each other, I'll give you one guess as to whose readers say Yea and whose say Nay.Congratulations, Al!
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