3 reasons Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

[IndyOp]

3 reasons Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
October 11th, 2007

Conservative carping aside, Al Gore is a perfect candidate for three reasons:

1. The award has always gone to people who have done more than just promote “peace,” such as Albert Schweitzer, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mother Teresa.

2. The award has recently (2004) gone to an environmental leader, the great Wangari Maathai, who “founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots environmental non-governmental organization, which has now planted over 30 million trees across Kenya to prevent soil erosion.”

3. Global warming is a grave threat to future peace and security — as more and more experts are acknowledging. Global warming is a grave security threat, creating the possibility of millions of refugees, spurred terrorism, sea level rise, food and water shortages — water being a major source of conflict. Indeed, climate change may already have been a key factor in the Darfur crisis (see here and here).

If we avoid catastrophic global warming, Al Gore’s tireless efforts to educate the nation and the world will be a major reason. He will have prevented untold humanitarian crises and countless regional conflicts. Gore would bring honor to the award.

;-)

[aquart]

1. And FOUR...because it would please me.

Which is what really counts.

[IndyOp]

2. I agree. Okay Nobel Prize Committee -

Let's go into that meeting room and win one for Aquart!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[kestrel91316]

4. Me, too! I'm waiting on pins and needles for the annoncement.

[tomreedtoon]

5. And if it goes to Reuben Guberman?

The guy who suggested picking up dog poop with those plastic bags from Wal-Mart instead of just throwing the bags away? That's ecological, and it brings honor to the Union Park Dog Walk. Reuben came up with a simple way to make the world better, and Wal-Mart also gains honor for destroying the environment a little less.

Point is, what happens to everything else, all the wonderful blue-sky Presidential aspirations pushed here on DU...when Gore does NOT get the Nobel Prize, which you have to admit is a possibility?

[kestrel91316]

6. Then I shrug my shoulders and congratulate the winner.

Nothing to stop him from getting it in some future year, either.

But you knew that, right?

[Admiral Loinpresser]

3. Spot on! n/t