How I love this man! It is going to be so emotional to even see the ads from his organization play on television this next week. It has been such a long time waiting to have someone of his stature, conviction, and passion for our Earth take this step. To put his own money, time, creativity and knowledge into doing this for our future is just yes, heroic. After supporting him for over twenty years I can absolutely say I have never been prouder of him than I am today. He is not only a man who cares about this country, but the world. And to hear tonight that he is converting his family farm into a worldwide training center- well, SIGN ME UP.
He is also not only training people in India, but has also trained people in London, Australia, Spain, and will be training more people coming up next month in Canada. He is scheduled to be keynote speaker at events all over the world and will be instrumental in forging a climate treaty that truly meets the challenge of the climate crisis. It is more than I could have ever hoped for for him in lifting himself up from the pain of eight years ago, and it is as if that pain were meant to be to lead him to where he is now.
That hurt is still obvious in his face when he speaks of it, as well as his wife's, and when the last question came up I immediately looked at his wife's face and it said, oh no, not this again. He is over it. He is above politics. He is about working to help this species survive its own destructive behavior. That is most certainly a full time job that cannot be done from the tainted halls of the beltway.
I only hope that now as his new ad campaign embarks more people will awaken to seeing the urgency of what we face as a species and the limited time we have to make it right. We can solve it as Mr. Gore stated, but we all need the will and we need to stay on top of those who have the responsibility of doing that in government. However, I truly do believe business and individuals are and already will take the lead on this and that is primarily due to Al Gore's tremendous efforts and focus on the most challenging crisis this species has ever faced.
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3980795nThis is the Sixty Minutes video of his interview.
Happy Birthday :party: to a great man who has shown all of us that anything is possible when you put your soul and heart into it.
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