Al Gore at training session in Melbourne: he has moved on to this higher calling

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22475161-5000117,00.html

The world according to Al Gore
September 25, 2007 12:00am

I WAS fortunate enough to be a part of Al Gore's climate-change training session at the Arts Centre in Melbourne.

Despite a lot of media comment suggesting Gore was interested in speaking only to high-paying businessmen, this two-day event was free.

The session brought together about 200 people as diverse as an indigenous woman from northern Australia, a bat tracker from the NSW north coast, several high school students and even celebrity gardener Jamie Durie.

This was not your stereotypical bunch of greenies.

There were even a few footballers there, including Shane Wakelin from the Pies and Mark Bolton from the Bombers, plus Wallabies star Alex Kanaar.

They were all there to be taught how to present Gore's Inconvenient Truth slideshow to their local communities.

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Former US vice-president Gore spoke at length about how he came to the movement and how it had consumed so much of his life.

He said that he was now "over politics" and had moved on to this higher calling.

Also on stage was Don Henry from the Australian Conservation Foundation and Dr Graeme Pearman, former long-time head of Australia's CSIRO and now one of the world's leading authorities on climate change.

Dr Pearman is devoting much of his retirement to educating Australians about climate change.

One of the most moving moments came when the former vice-president spoke about the near death of his son because of an accident more than 10 years ago.

He said he now felt the same emotions over the precarious state of the planet.

Those who went to the workshop made a commitment to take what they learned back to their communities.

They made a decision to devote their time and energy to educate Australians about climate change.

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Those who serve their conscience serve well. And those who put aside all selfish aspirations for the better good are to me great men and women that history will be forever kind to. Some may believe his destiny lies in going backward. I firmly believe his destiny and ours lie in going forward. Especially after reading accounts like this.

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1. And another thread about his real work falls into the abyss