Gore:"Become an activist as a consumer, as a voter, as a citizen."

[kpete]

Gore's plea on climate change wins ovation

James Randerson, science correspondent
Tuesday May 30, 2006
The Guardian

Al Gore addresses a capacity audience at the Hay festival. Photograph: PA

"We're running the planet like a company in liquidation," the former US vice-president Al Gore told an audience at the Hay festival, in an impassioned plea to act on climate change before it is too late. "For some reason we have now convinced ourselves, too many of us, that we don't have to care about the future," he said.

His lecture - part promotion of his new film, An Inconvenient Truth, part environmental rallying cry and part self-deprecating stand-up routine - earned him a standing ovation from the sell-out crowd.

Referring to the urgency of the "planetary emergency", he urged his audience to take their own action to combat climate change. "I want you to arm yourselves with knowledge. I want you to learn it in your own words. I want you to make the changes in your own lives," he said. "Become an activist as a consumer, as a voter, as a citizen."

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He warned that action or inaction would be judged by future generations. They would ask, he said: "What were they thinking? Didn't they see this coming? Were they too distracted? Were they too busy? Didn't they care?"

http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2006/story/0,,1785770,00.html

[marmar]

1. Us to Gore: Become a candidate for president in 2008.

Please.

:patriot:

[Minnesota Libra]

2. My sentiments EXACTLY - Pres Gore we need you in 08 nt

[Supersedeas]

4. make this message a national agenda by running for *'s job

[Deja Q]

3. Think globally, act locally.

Forgive me, but since becoming a board member of Apple, what has Gore done to help with the little ipod problem?

Or if Gore has any relevance at all on the board? (I am naive when it comes to big business.)

[NYCGirl]

5. He made a similar plea to us at the NYC Town Hall meeting last week.

And I think everyone in that large audience was energized and ready to work — Al Gore is a leader.

[Greeby]

6. He was doing an interivew on UK TV tonight

I defintely think he should run. But then, I'm biased