By Ronald Brownstein
With the domestic and international debates over climate change reaching a critical point, former Vice President Al Gore is back with a book on the issue. In Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, Gore argues that the prospect of disruptive climate change presents "a unique and unprecedented challenge" because its impact will unfold over decades and affect societies worldwide. Those are bigger units of measurement than political leaders usually work with when trying to build coalitions for action. "In other words, because of its planetary scope, this crisis masquerades as an abstraction," Gore writes, in one of his book's most memorable passages.
As the debate intensifies, Gore isn't focused just on the far horizon. His Alliance for Climate Protection and its associated Climate Protection Action Fund has 200 organizers working in 22 states trying to build support for legislation to limit carbon emissions; the groups are collecting thousands of video statements of support for action on their Repower America Web site. Gore spoke with National Journal on November 5 about his new book, the Senate climate debate, and the prospects for the international climate-change meeting that will open in Copenhagen on December 7.
Read the full interview here.
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Responded on October 5, 2010 4:18 AM
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Responded on May 3, 2011 8:25 PM
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At least Al Gore is right about global warming, correct? Or was he? He says it was man-made, not just the planet's normal cycle over 1000's of years. Ya think?