The (Annotated) Gore Climate Speech
By The New York Times
Former Vice President Al Gore is delivering a speech laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming while providing sufficient energy to sustain economic vigor in the United States and around the world.
Over on Dot Earth, Andrew C. Revkin has the full text of the speech and is exploring Mr. Gore’s latest proposals on climate through his document annotation method developed her over the last few months in examining climate speeches and statements by President Bush, Senator John McCain, and the Group of 8 industrialized nations.
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Senator Barack Obama released the following statement after Mr. Gore’s speech:
“For decades, Al Gore has challenged the skeptics in Washington on climate change and awakened the conscience of a nation to the urgency of this threat. I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels, and those are the investments I will make as President. It’s a strategy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced, and one that will leave our children a world that is cleaner and safer.”
(Hot links in the original.)
Here's an excerpt:
I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously. Our economy is in terrible shape and getting worse, gasoline prices are increasing dramatically, and so are electricity rates. Jobs are being outsourced. Home mortgages are in trouble. Banks, automobile companies and other institutions we depend upon are under growing pressure. Distinguished senior business leaders are telling us that this is just the beginning unless we find the courage to make some major changes quickly.
(snip)
We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change.
(Full text here.)
Former Vice President Al Gore is delivering a speech laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming while providing sufficient energy to sustain economic vigor in the United States and around the world.
Over on Dot Earth, Andrew C. Revkin has the full text of the speech and is exploring Mr. Gore’s latest proposals on climate through his document annotation method developed her over the last few months in examining climate speeches and statements by President Bush, Senator John McCain, and the Group of 8 industrialized nations.
More on Dot Earth…
Senator Barack Obama released the following statement after Mr. Gore’s speech:
“For decades, Al Gore has challenged the skeptics in Washington on climate change and awakened the conscience of a nation to the urgency of this threat. I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels, and those are the investments I will make as President. It’s a strategy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced, and one that will leave our children a world that is cleaner and safer.”
(Hot links in the original.)
Here's an excerpt:
I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously. Our economy is in terrible shape and getting worse, gasoline prices are increasing dramatically, and so are electricity rates. Jobs are being outsourced. Home mortgages are in trouble. Banks, automobile companies and other institutions we depend upon are under growing pressure. Distinguished senior business leaders are telling us that this is just the beginning unless we find the courage to make some major changes quickly.
(snip)
We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change.
(Full text here.)
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