Al Gore premiered his brand-new slide show at the TED Conference earlier this year. The video just came out on YouTube. I could not contain my excitement as I listened to the whole 30′ of what I think is Al Gore’s best presentation to date. Passionate, inspiring, and loaded with crucial facts, not just about the global warming emergency, but also the state of the crowds.
Imagine ‘Planet Save Parties‘ all over the world showing this video. What do you think of the idea? I am going to approach the Al Gore people and see if I can get the video.
“global temperatures, after flattening out, have in recent months shown a sharp fall, wholly unpredicted by those computer models on which the proponents of warming orthodoxy rely. This raises rather large question marks over whether the theory has actually got it right.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/06/ealawson106.xml&page=1
I can honestly say that for once, I got a little hope in Al Gore. At the end of his talk, you can see him struggling to find words to inspire. That’s what I liked most about it.
Steve Jobs is real good salesman, but I think he’s never quite himself on stage. He always stays within safe boundaries. Gore clearly shows his humanity here.
Yes, it felt very authentic.
> disinter : this is due to La Nina. (read it in a major French newspaper, I will publish an article on it soon)
> Marguerite : you are becoming a major information source for me. Thanks for that.
I will write my appreciation on the video later on.
Thanks Edouard, I am happy to spread information around. That is what it is for, after all. Please note that a lot of what I write about comes directly from readers like you. They are the ones who need to be thanked. I am just a channel.
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Dear Al Gore,
Thanks for presenting the distinctly human-driven “human predicament” with such clarity of vision, coherence of mind and moral courage.
Many too many leaders are woefully inadequate. These economic powerbrokers and their bought-and-paid-for politicians, with great wealth and power as well as responsibilities to assume and duties to perform, have evidently chosen to take the human community down a “primrose path” and to race toward oblivion without a care for what our children could confront because of the spectacularly self-seeking behavior of their selfish elders.
The primrose path chosen by too many of our leaders is not the only path, not the one right way to live. Despite all they and their minions have said and we have heard so often, the path of endless economic growth, reckless dissipation of natural resources, irreversible degradation of the environs, and unrestrained population increase is not the only path, not “the only game in town.” Perhaps the relentless pursuit of precisely this “unbridled growth path” to the future could result in a colossal catastrophe like the one witnessed by the King of kings named Ozymandias.
Sincerely,
Steve
Thanks Steve. We need more voices like yours.
Thanks for this post and share the Al Gore presentation.
Since I’m unable to get the video I will put a link to your site directly to this entry so others may know of this.
Thank you for spreading this.
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