Environmental activism of Al Gore
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Childhood
Gore stated in an interview for The New York Times that his interest in environmentalism began when he was a teenager:
As I was entering high school, my mother was reading Silent Spring and the dinner table conversation was about pesticides and the environment ... The year I graduated from college the momentum was building for Earth Day. After that, as I was entering divinity school, the Club of Rome report came out and the limits to growth was a main issue.[1]
Politics
Congress
Gore has been involved with environmental work for a number of decades. In 1976, at 28, after joining the United States House of Representatives, Gore held the "first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor[ed] hearings on toxic waste and global warming".[2][3] He continued to speak on the topic throughout the 1980s[4] and was known as one of the Atari Democrats, later called the "Democrats' Greens, politicians who see issues like clean air, clean water and global warming as the key to future victories for their party".[1][5]
In 1989, while still a Senator, Gore published an editorial in The Washington Post, in which he argued:
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with the planet Earth. The world's forests are being destroyed; an enormous hole is opening in the ozone layer. Living species are dying at an unprecedented rate.[6]
In 1990, Senator Gore presided over a three-day conference with legislators from over 42 countries which sought to create a Global Marshall Plan, "under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while still protecting the environment".[7]
The Concord Monitor says that Gore "was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases".[8]
Vice presidency: 1993–2001
As Vice President, Gore was involved in a number of initiatives related to the environment. He launched the
2001–present
Generation Investment Management
In 2004, Gore co-launched
We Can Solve It
Gore and The Alliance for Climate Protection created the We Can Solve It organization, a web-based program with multiple advertisements on television focused on spreading awareness for climate crisis (global warming) and petitioning for the press putting more attention on the crisis, the government doing more to help the environment, and their ultimate goal is the end to global warming. Although focused mostly upon the United States, and Americans, it is an international petition and effort. It already has over one million signatures.[1]
Lectures and conferences
In recent years, Gore has remained busy traveling the world speaking and participating in events mainly aimed towards
In An Inconvenient Truth Gore calls for people to conserve energy.In 2007, Al Gore was the main non-official representative for the United States in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, which is a series of discussions that plans to continue where the Kyoto Protocol left off when it expires in 2012.[24] He used a famous World War II poem written by Pastor Martin Niemöller to describe how the international community is eerily accomplishing nothing in the face of the greatest crisis in human history.[25] He ended the speech using his famous tag line: "However, political will is a renewable resource."[26]
During
A public lecture at University of Toronto on February 21, 2007, on the topic of global warming, led to a crash of the ticket sales website within minutes of opening.[28]
In March 2008, Gore gave a talk via
On July 17, 2008, Gore gave a speech at the
Repower America
On July 21, 2008, Al Gore used a speech to challenge the United States to commit to producing
Center for Resource Solutions supports Al Gore's Repower America goal.[37]
Civil disobedience to stop coal plants
On September 24, 2008, Gore made the following statements in a speech given at the Clinton Global Initiative:
"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."[38]
These remarks were similar to ones he'd made the previous year:
"I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers," Mr. Gore said, "and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants."[39]
Climate Reality Project
In March 2010[40] two nonprofit organizations founded by Al Gore, the Alliance for Climate Protection and the Climate Project, joined together, and in July 2011 the combined organization was renamed the Climate Reality Project.[41] In February 2012 the Climate Reality Project organized an expedition to the Antarctic with "civic and business leaders, activists and concerned citizens from many countries".[42]
Vegan
In 2013, Gore became a
Rampal power plant
In a plenary session of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in
Climate and Health Summit
A "Climate and Health Summit" which was originally going to be held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was cancelled without warning in late January 2017.[47] A few days later, Gore revived the summit, which he will hold without the CDC.[48]
Environmental criticism
Four main environmental criticisms have been leveled at Gore: (1) he has an alleged conflict of interest from his role as both an investor in green-technology companies and as an advocate of taxpayer-funded green-technology subsidies,[49][50] (2) he allegedly makes erroneous scientific claims,[51][52] (3) he consumes excessive amounts of energy,[53] and (4) he allegedly refuses to debate others on the subject of global warming.[54]
In reference to Gore's alleged conflict of interest, some critics have labeled Gore a "carbon billionaire."
Criticisms of Gore's allegedly erroneous scientific statements tend to focus on a British High Court's ruling that Gore's Inconvenient Truth documentary was deemed by the court to have nine significant errors.[51] Several of these, such as the statement that climate change was a main cause of coral reef bleaching,[58] and that polar bears were drowning due to habitat-loss as a result of ice-cap melting,[59] have been subsequently backed up by stronger evidence than the court was able to locate at the time. The court's broad conclusion, nevertheless, was that "many of the claims made by the film were fully backed up by the weight of science."[51]
Gore has also been the subject of criticism for his personal use of energy, including his ownership of multiple large homes.
A few months later, the Associated Press reported on December 13, 2007, that Gore "has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation's most environmentally friendly ... 'Short of tearing it down and starting anew, I don't know how it could have been rated any higher,' said Kim Shinn of the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design."[65]
Gore was criticized by the TCPR again in June 2008, after the group obtained his public utility bills from the
In August 2017, it was reported that over the past year, Gore used enough electric energy to power the typical American household for over 21 years, as per a report issued by the National Center for Public Policy Research. Reportedly, Gore consumed 230,889 kilowatt hours (kWh) at his Nashville residence alone. Additionally, Gore owns two other residences – a penthouse in San Francisco and a farmhouse in Carthage, Tennessee – making his carbon footprint even larger than what was reported. Gore's Nashville home actually classifies as an 'energy hog' under standards developed by Energy Vanguard.[71]
Some have argued that Gore refuses to debate the topic of global warming. Bjørn Lomborg, a key figure in the climate-change denier movement, asked him to debate the topic at a conference in California. Gore replied that he would not, stating that "The scientific community has gone through this chapter and verse. We have long since passed the time when we should pretend this is a 'on the one hand, on the other hand' issue," he said. "It's not a matter of theory or conjecture, for goodness sake."[72]
Books, film, television, and live performances
An Inconvenient Truth
Gore starred in the
After An Inconvenient Truth was nominated for an Academy Award,
After winning the 2007
The official documentary film website is meaningfully called climatecrisis.net [80]
At the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Gore released An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, a sequel to his 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth, which documents his continuing efforts to battle climate change.[81]
Books
Gore wrote Earth in the Balance (which was published in 1992) while his six-year-old son Albert was recovering from a serious accident. It became the first book written by a sitting Senator to make The New York Times Best Seller list since John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.[82]
Gore also published the book
In July 2017, Gore published An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis, concurrent with his film An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.
Futurama
Gore appeared in
Live Earth
On July 7, 2007, Live Earth benefit concerts were held around the world in an effort to raise awareness about climate change. The event was the brainchild of Gore and Kevin Wall of Save Our Selves. On July 21, 2007, Gore announced he was teaming with actress Cameron Diaz for a TV climate contest, 60 Seconds to Save the Earth, to gain people's support in solving the climate crisis.[89]
2007 Nobel Peace Prize and India
Gore was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was shared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, headed by Rajendra K. Pachauri (Delhi, India).[90] The award was given "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" on October 12, 2007.[91]
Gore made the following statement after receiving the prize:
I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis—a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level. My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the
non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.[92]
Gore and Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2007.[93][94]
In the Lecture he delivered on December 10, 2007, in Oslo, fece to the Royal Highnesses of Norway, to the members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and to the other ladies and gentlemen, who attended the ceremony for the Nobel prize-giving, he made this surprising statement:
Last September 21, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented distress that the North Polar ice cap is "falling off a cliff." One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years.
— Al Gore, from the Lecture delivered on December 10, 2007, in Oslo in occasion of the ceremony for the Nobel prize-giving[95]
In a talk given during March 2008 in Delhi, Gore argued that India, as a leader in information technology, is in a particularly strong position to also lead the way in climate change.[96][97][98] This talk coincided with the release of two children's books by Gore jointly published with the India Habitat Centre.[99]
Selected honors and awards
- 2008 Dan David Prize: "Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment."[100]
- 2008 The Gore resolution (HJR712) passed by the Tennessee House of Representatives which honors Gore's "efforts to curb global warming."[101]
- 2007 Gothenburg Prize for Sustainable Development[102]
- 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (environment)
- 2007 International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: Founders Award for Current TV and for work in the area of global warming[103]
- 2007
- 2007 The Sir David Attenborough Award for Excellence in Nature Filmmaking (environment)[105]
- 2006 Quill Awards: History/current events/politics, An Inconvenient Truth
Selected publications
Books
- ISBN 978-1-59486-734-7.
- Al Gore (2008). ISBN 978-1-60529-990-7.
- Know Climate Change and 101 Q and A on Climate Change from 'Save Planet Earth Series', 2008 (children's books) [99]
- Al Gore (2006). ISBN 978-1-59486-567-1.
- Al Gore (1992). ISBN 978-0-618-05664-4.
Articles, speeches, and introductions
- "We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change." The New York Times, February 27, 2010.
- "The Climate for Change." The New York Times, November 9, 2008.
- Transcript of Al Gore's speech at the Sierra Summit, September 9, 2005. (archived from the original on 2006-02-10)
- The Digital Earth: Understanding our planet in the 21st Century, by Vice President Al Gore, Given at the California Science Center, Los Angeles, California, on January 31, 1998.
- Vice President Al Gore's introduction to Earthwatch: 24 Hours In Cyberspace. February 8, 1996. 24 Hours in Cyberspace
- "Understanding Earth: Retrospectives and Visions post conferences report." GeoJournal, Volume 37, Number 3 / November 1995.
- "Introduction. In Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. 1994. New York : Houghton-Mifflin.
- The Climate Change Action Plan. Washington, D.C.: The White House, October 1993 (with William Clinton).
- News briefs — Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., talks about the environment — Letter to the Editor, Science World, September 3, 1993.
- Gore Jr, A (1992). "We must challenge the unthinkable". Integration (Tokyo, Japan) (31): 18–23. PMID 12284961.
- "Gaining our eco-librium." Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy; Vol/Issue: 5:2, June 1, 1990.
- "To Skeptics on Global Warming ...." The New York Times, April 22, 1990.
- Earth's Fate Is the No. 1 National Security Issue - The Washington Post, May 14, 1989
Glossary
Al Gore uses the terms:
- global warming/climate change).
- Climate refugee
- Energy tsunami (a loss of access to foreign oil).
- Megafire
Further reading
- Kirk, Andrew G. Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 2007.[106]
See also
- Climate Reality Project
- List of environmental philosophers
- World Resources Institute Board of Directors Biosketch for Al Gore Archived April 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
Notes
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- ^ "Al Gore goes vegan, with little fanfare". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ a b Alman, Ashley (November 25, 2013). "Al Gore Goes Vegan". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ Gore, Al (March 7, 2014). "Al Gore on Medicine's Inconvenient Truths" (Interview). Interviewed by Eric Topol. Medscape. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
Over a year ago I changed my diet to a vegan diet, really just to experiment to see what it was like. ... I felt better, so I've continued with it and I'm likely to continue it for the rest of my life.
- ^ "Stop building Rampal Power Plant so close to Sundarban: Al Gore to Sheikh Hasina | Foreign Relations | ABnews24". abnews24.com/english. Archived from the original on January 29, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on climate change and health
- ^ CDC’s canceled climate change conference is back on — thanks to Al Gore
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- The Los Angeles Times. May 8, 2010.
- ^ "Al Gore's Personal Energy Use Is His Own "Inconvenient Truth"". TCPR. February 26, 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
- ^ Chris Cillizza & Matthew Mosk (March 1, 2007). "War on Warming Begins at (Al Gore's) Home". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
- ^ Countdown With Keith Olbermann, MSNBC. February 27, 2007, broadcast.
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- ^ The original toolbox for green living 40 years later
External links
- WASHINGTON TALK; Greening of Democrats: An 80's Mix of Idealism And Shrewd Politics The New York Times, June 14, 1989
- Global warming is a planetary emergency: Al Gore - India Today interview with Gore
- Al Gore Speech Accepting 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
- Video: Gore Speaks at TED Conference — 15 ways to avert a climate crisis