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I AM NOT AN AL GORE FAN, HE IS A SECOND GENERATION PROFESSIONAL

POLITICIAN WHO HAS HEARD " HAIL TO THE CHIEF " , ONE TIME TO MANY

BY MY LIGHT'S .........I AM SIGNING THE MOVE ON PETITION THAT AL WILL

DELIVER IN BALI IN SUPPORT OF THE " EARTH MOTHER " AND

RESTORING THE REPUBLIC TO WHICH WE ARE SUPPOSED TO PLEDGE OUR

ALLEGIANCE ......NO WHERE IN THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS IN

THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY DO YOU FIND THE WORD

DEMOCRACY.........FOUNDING FATHERS CREATED A REPUBLIC!!!! THE

" BANKSTER'S MADE US INTO A DEMOCRACY AND THEN INTO

THE ENVIRONMENTAL MESS WE'RE ALL IN TODAY THRU THE " DEMOCRATIC

" PROCESS...AND .THAT GIVES US " W " TO FIX

THINGS????!!!!! KRAIG

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A message from Al Gore to MoveOn members.

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support Al Gore's call for a visionary global treaty to be completed and

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Dear MoveOn member,

President Bush won't be joining the world leaders gathered in Bali this

week for the most important UN climate conference ever. But Al Gore will.

And he's sent a personal note to MoveOn members (see below), asking for

our help.

Yesterday, Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his

unflinching, heroic efforts to tackle global warming.

Now he's heading straight to the Bali conference to call for a visionary

global treaty to stop climate change. He's asking millions of Americans

to join him. With the world watching, he'll bring our signatures

onto the stage to show the world where Americans stand on climate

change.

Can you sign this petition to show that Bush doesn't represent us on

climate change­and Al Gore does? Click here to add your name:

http://pol.moveon.org/standwithal/o.pl?id=11782-1268294-0_E6o2 & t=4

The petition says: " I support Al Gore's call for a visionary global

treaty to be completed and brought into effect by 2010 and want my

government to be a leader in making this happen. " Vice

President Gore himself will present your signatures and comments in

Bali.

Sign the petition, then watch the video of Al Gore's galvanizing Nobel

acceptance speech.

And read Al's note to all of us, below.

–Wes, Eli, Joan, Noah, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

 

 

Dear Friend,

As I head off to Bali, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you

who have worked so hard and so long to bring the issue of climate change

to prominence. I want to especially thank MoveOn members, and Wes,

Joan, Eli and the whole MoveOn team, for the years of support and

encouragement. To all of you who have written, emailed, called and

organized, thank you.

In Bali, Indonesia thousands of delegates from nearly 190 countries have

gathered at the UN Conference on Climate Change. In a few days, I will

address the conference to urge the adoption of a visionary new treaty to

address global warming and I want to bring your voices with me.

So, I need your help again.

Sign my petition today by clicking this link and I will bring your

signatures on stage with me as a clear demonstration of our resolve:

 

http://pol.moveon.org/standwithal/o.pl?id=11782-1268294-0_E6o2 & t=5

 

Together, we will call on the U.S. government to assume a new leadership

role in solving the climate crisis.

World leaders including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French

President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and newly

elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have all agreed to

aggressively battle the climate crisis­yet our country still lags

behind.

Over the next few days, I would like to ask you to help me get people

from across the country to sign our message to the global community. We

can demonstrate that the American people understand the immediacy of the

climate crisis and want to work with the nations of the world to solve

it. Time is short­we need to mobilize everyone to bring this message to

Bali. Click here to add your name to my petition:

http://pol.moveon.org/standwithal/o.pl?id=11782-1268294-0_E6o2 & t=6

 

The American people want a visionary treaty to address climate change and

for the U.S. government to play a positive leadership role in its

development.

Together, we can make it happen.

Thank you,

 

Al Gore

P.S. After signing the petition, please urge your friends and family to

sign the petition and join the movement.

 

 

SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE

OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

DECEMBER 10, 2007

OSLO, NORWAY

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian

Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.

I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for

many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish

it.

Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious

and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago,

a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years

before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a

newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life's work, unfairly labeling

him " The Merchant of Death " because of his invention­dynamite.

Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve

the cause of peace.

Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that

bear his name.

Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment

that seemed to me harsh and mistaken­if not premature. But that unwelcome

verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search

for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.

Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words

cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be

communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, " We

must act. "

The distinguished scientists with whom it is the greatest honor of my

life to share this award have laid before us a choice between two

different futures­a choice that to my ears echoes the words of an ancient

prophet: " Life or death, blessings or curses. Therefore, choose

life, that both thou and thy seed may live. "

We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency­a threat to

the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and

destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news

as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the

worst­though not all­of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively

and quickly.

However, despite a growing number of honorable exceptions, too many of

the world's leaders are still best described in the words Winston

Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler's threat: " They

go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be

irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be

impotent. "

So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution

into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were

an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with

the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the

sun.

As a result, the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising. The experts

have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We

asked for a second opinion. And a third. And a fourth. And the consistent

conclusion, restated with increasing alarm, is that something basic is

wrong.

We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.

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.

Seven years from now.

In the last few months, it has been harder and harder to misinterpret the

signs that our world is spinning out of kilter. Major cities in North and

South America, Asia and Australia are nearly out of water due to massive

droughts and melting glaciers. Desperate farmers are losing their

livelihoods. Peoples in the frozen Arctic and on low-lying Pacific

islands are planning evacuations of places they have long called home.

Unprecedented wildfires have forced a half million people from their

homes in one country and caused a national emergency that almost brought

down the government in another. Climate refugees have migrated into areas

already inhabited by people with different cultures, religions, and

traditions, increasing the potential for conflict. Stronger storms in the

Pacific and Atlantic have threatened whole cities. Millions have been

displaced by massive flooding in South Asia, Mexico, and 18 countries in

Africa. As temperature extremes have increased, tens of thousands have

lost their lives. We are recklessly burning and clearing our forests and

driving more and more species into extinction. The very web of life on

which we depend is being ripped and frayed.

We never intended to cause all this destruction, just as Alfred Nobel

never intended that dynamite be used for waging war. He had hoped his

invention would promote human progress. We shared that same worthy goal

when we began burning massive quantities of coal, then oil and

methane.

Even in Nobel's time, there were a few warnings of the likely

consequences. One of the very first winners of the Prize in chemistry

worried that, " We are evaporating our coal mines into the air. "

After performing 10,000 equations by hand, Svante Arrhenius calculated

that the earth's average temperature would increase by many degrees if we

doubled the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Seventy years later, my teacher, Roger Revelle, and his colleague, Dave

Keeling, began to precisely document the increasing CO2 levels day by

day.

But unlike most other forms of pollution, CO2 is invisible, tasteless,

and odorless­which has helped keep the truth about what it is doing to

our climate out of sight and out of mind. Moreover, the catastrophe now

threatening us is unprecedented­and we often confuse the unprecedented

with the improbable.

We also find it hard to imagine making the massive changes that are now

necessary to solve the crisis. And when large truths are genuinely

inconvenient, whole societies can, at least for a time, ignore them. Yet

as George Orwell reminds us: " Sooner or later a false belief bumps

up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. "

In the years since this prize was first awarded, the entire relationship

between humankind and the earth has been radically transformed. And

still, we have remained largely oblivious to the impact of our cumulative

actions.

Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the earth

itself. Now, we and the earth's climate are locked in a relationship

familiar to war planners: " Mutually assured

destruction. "

More than two decades ago, scientists calculated that nuclear war could

throw so much debris and smoke into the air that it would block

life-giving sunlight from our atmosphere, causing a " nuclear

winter. " Their eloquent warnings here in Oslo helped galvanize the

world's resolve to halt the nuclear arms race.

Now science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global

warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet

normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of

creating a permanent " carbon summer. "

As the American poet Robert Frost wrote, " Some say the world will

end in fire; some say in ice. " Either, he notes, " would

suffice. "

But neither need be our fate. It is time to make peace with the

planet.

We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve

that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These

prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the

11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to

sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

These were not comforting and misleading assurances that the threat was

not real or imminent; that it would affect others but not ourselves; that

ordinary life might be lived even in the presence of extraordinary

threat; that Providence could be trusted to do for us what we would not

do for ourselves.

No, these were calls to come to the defense of the common future. They

were calls upon the courage, generosity and strength of entire peoples,

citizens of every class and condition who were ready to stand against the

threat once asked to do so. Our enemies in those times calculated that

free people would not rise to the challenge; they were, of course,

catastrophically wrong.

Now comes the threat of climate crisis­a threat that is real, rising,

imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties

for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near

point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the

power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have

we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned

by a dangerous illusion?

Mahatma Gandhi awakened the largest democracy on earth and forged a

shared resolve with what he called " Satyagraha " ­or " truth

force. "

In every land, the truth­once known­has the power to set us

free.

Truth also has the power to unite us and bridge the distance between

" me " and " we, " creating the basis for common effort

and shared responsibility.

There is an African proverb that says, " If you want to go quickly,

go alone. If you want to go far, go together. " We need to go far,

quickly.

We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions

are the answer. They can and do help. But they will not take us far

enough without collective action. At the same time, we must ensure that

in mobilizing globally, we do not invite the establishment of ideological

conformity and a new lock-step " ism. "

That means adopting principles, values, laws, and treaties that release

creativity and initiative at every level of society in multifold

responses originating concurrently and spontaneously.

This new consciousness requires expanding the possibilities inherent in

all humanity. The innovators who will devise a new way to harness the

sun's energy for pennies or invent an engine that's carbon negative may

live in Lagos or Mumbai or Montevideo. We must ensure that entrepreneurs

and inventors everywhere on the globe have the chance to change the

world.

When we unite for a moral purpose that is manifestly good and true, the

spiritual energy unleashed can transform us. The generation that defeated

fascism throughout the world in the 1940s found, in rising to meet their

awesome challenge, that they had gained the moral authority and long-term

vision to launch the Marshall Plan, the United Nations, and a new level

of global cooperation and foresight that unified Europe and facilitated

the emergence of democracy and prosperity in Germany, Japan, Italy and

much of the world. One of their visionary leaders said, " It is time

we steered by the stars and not by the lights of every passing

ship. "

In the last year of that war, you gave the Peace Prize to a man from my

hometown of 2000 people, Carthage, Tennessee. Cordell Hull was described

by Franklin Roosevelt as the " Father of the United Nations. " He

was an inspiration and hero to my own father, who followed Hull in the

Congress and the U.S. Senate and in his commitment to world peace and

global cooperation.

My parents spoke often of Hull, always in tones of reverence and

admiration. Eight weeks ago, when you announced this prize, the deepest

emotion I felt was when I saw the headline in my hometown paper that

simply noted I had won the same prize that Cordell Hull had won. In that

moment, I knew what my father and mother would have felt were they

alive.

Just as Hull's generation found moral authority in rising to solve the

world crisis caused by fascism, so too can we find our greatest

opportunity in rising to solve the climate crisis. In the Kanji

characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, " crisis " is

written with two symbols, the first meaning " danger, " the

second " opportunity. " By facing and removing the danger of the

climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authority and

vision to vastly increase our own capacity to solve other crises that

have been too long ignored.

We must understand the connections between the climate crisis and the

afflictions of poverty, hunger, HIV-Aids and other pandemics. As these

problems are linked, so too must be their solutions. We must begin by

making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing

principle of the world community.

Fifteen years ago, I made that case at the " Earth Summit " in

Rio de Janeiro. Ten years ago, I presented it in Kyoto. This week, I will

urge the delegates in Bali to adopt a bold mandate for a treaty that

establishes a universal global cap on emissions and uses the market in

emissions trading to efficiently allocate resources to the most effective

opportunities for speedy reductions.

This treaty should be ratified and brought into effect everywhere in the

world by the beginning of 2010­two years sooner than presently

contemplated. The pace of our response must be accelerated to match the

accelerating pace of the crisis itself.

Heads of state should meet early next year to review what was

accomplished in Bali and take personal responsibility for addressing this

crisis. It is not unreasonable to ask, given the gravity of our

circumstances, that these heads of state meet every three months until

the treaty is completed.

We also need a moratorium on the construction of any new generating

facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store

carbon dioxide.

And most important of all, we need to put a price on carbon­with a CO2

tax that is then rebated back to the people, progressively, according to

the laws of each nation, in ways that shift the burden of taxation from

employment to pollution. This is by far the most effective and simplest

way to accelerate solutions to this crisis.

The world needs an alliance­especially of those nations that weigh

heaviest in the scales where earth is in the balance. I salute Europe and

Japan for the steps they've taken in recent years to meet the challenge,

and the new government in Australia, which has made solving the climate

crisis its first priority.

But the outcome will be decisively influenced by two nations that are now

failing to do enough: the United States and China. While India is also

growing fast in importance, it should be absolutely clear that it is the

two largest CO2 emitters­most of all, my own country­that will need to

make the boldest moves, or stand accountable before history for their

failure to act.

Both countries should stop using the other's behavior as an excuse for

stalemate and instead develop an agenda for mutual survival in a shared

global environment.

These are the last few years of decision, but they can be the first years

of a bright and hopeful future if we do what we must. No one should

believe a solution will be found without effort, without cost, without

change. Let us acknowledge that if we wish to redeem squandered time and

speak again with moral authority, then these are the hard

truths:

The way ahead is difficult. The outer boundary of what we currently

believe is feasible is still far short of what we actually must do.

Moreover, between here and there, across the unknown, falls the

shadow.

That is just another way of saying that we have to expand the boundaries

of what is possible. In the words of the Spanish poet, Antonio Machado,

" Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you

walk. "

We are standing at the most fateful fork in that path. So I want to end

as I began, with a vision of two futures­each a palpable possibility­and

with a prayer that we will see with vivid clarity the necessity of

choosing between those two futures, and the urgency of making the right

choice now.

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, " One of these

days, the younger generation will come knocking at my

door. "

The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next

generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask:

" What were you thinking; why didn't you act? "

Or they will ask instead: " How did you find the moral courage to

rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible

to solve? "

We have everything we need to get started, save perhaps political will,

but political will is a renewable resource.

So let us renew it, and say together: " We have a purpose. We are

many. For this purpose we will rise, and we will act. "

 

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[Guest guest]

That is certainly right, Kraig, people don't

know these things about our government form

these days due to the failure of our public school

system.

jp

 

 

I AM NOT AN AL GORE FAN, HE IS A SECOND GENERATION PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN WHO HAS HEARD "HAIL TO THE CHIEF", ONE TIME TO MANY BY MY LIGHT'S .........I AM SIGNING THE MOVE ON PETITION THAT AL WILL DELIVER IN BALI IN SUPPORT OF THE "EARTH MOTHER" AND RESTORING THE REPUBLIC TO WHICH WE ARE SUPPOSED TO PLEDGE OUR ALLEGIANCE ......NO WHERE IN THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY DO YOU FIND THE WORD DEMOCRACY.........FOUNDING FATHERS CREATED A REPUBLIC!!!! THE "BANKSTER'S MADE US INTO A DEMOCRACY AND THEN INTO THE ENVIRONMENTAL MESS WE'RE ALL IN TODAY THRU THE "DEMOCRATIC " PROCESS...AND .THAT GIVES US "W" TO FIX THINGS????!!!!! KRAIG