Gore Plans to Initiate a Grass-Roots 'Carbon Freeze' Movement

[RedEarth]

BERKELEY, California - Al Gore plans to start a grass-roots political movement next month to seek a "freeze" on carbon emissions that scientists say are to blame for global warming.

The former vice president's campaign is modeled after the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. Gore said he planned to enlist groups ranging from entrepreneurs and activists to political leaders to push for stronger policies to limit the growth of greenhouse gases.

"I think we need a 'carbon freeze,' " Gore told policy and business leaders Friday at a conference organized by a venture capital firm. "I intend to launch an ongoing campaign of mass persuasion at the beginning of 2007." Gore said the grass-roots campaign would put heat on leaders in Washington to come up with more sophisticated policies to address global climate change.

"I think we need a mass movement in the United States. I think it ought to start at the grass roots," said Gore, author of the book, "An Inconvenient Truth," which was made into a hit documentary film on global warming.

Gore said the power of the freeze demand is that it can operate at every level of society -- individuals can take steps to cut their use of nonrenewable energies, and so can businesses and local and state governments.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1210-02.htm

[Reterr]

1. Kick

Can't recommend yet :(

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

2. We can make a difference

nm

[DesertRat]

3. k&r for President Gore. n/t

[YankeyMCC]

4. knr

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

5. K & R!

I will be a part of it, hopefully :-) (I am just going to a training session in Jan with him :evilgrin:)

[OneBlueSky]

6. too little, too late . . . we need carbon reductions, not a carbon freeze . . .

unless we cut emissions substantially, we'll only preserve the status quo -- which is raising global temperatures rapidly . . .