Reading Al Gores Nobel lecture he gave when he received the prize just brings it home to you how different the world would be today had he become president. There is no doubt that we would be much further ahead in combating climate change as yet again the Bush administration fails to agree to anything binding to cut carbon emmissions. Roll on next years election, Gore won’t be running but lets hope someone who is prepared to combat the crisis gets in.
Excerpt From Gore’s Nobel Prize Speech:
We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency — a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst — though not all — of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly.
However, despite a growing number of honorable exceptions, too many of the world’s leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler’s threat: “They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.
