Guest guest Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 Regarding Azam's post this is an easy way to make a comment to Al Gore. Thanks, - Weintraub serveg Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:57 AM SERV> tell Al Gore Great Opportunity to comment to Al Gore about vegetarian/vegan message below (easy form). Please find a message from Al Gore and sign the petition link below to support and join the alliance for climate protection. ------------------------- Link: http://www.climateprotect.org/standwithal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 The film, 'An Inconvenient Truth' pays tribute, in more ways than one, to the late Carl Sagan who was Al Gore's teacher at Harvard University. The attached extract, written by Carl Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, speaks of his influence on the film. I append it for its breadth of vision, coming from a man who was one of the few NASA scientists to oppose primate experiments for space research and was one of the leading voices in the movement to grant human rights to Great Apes. Carl Sagan was a hero in the eyes of millions. Including mine. And it is nice to note that his ideas are still weaving their magic even though the flesh is gone. http://www.planetary.org/about/founders/carlsagan/ann_druyan.html This past summer, as I watched former Vice President Al Gore's film on global warming, *An Inconvenient Truth*, I thought how proud Carl would have been of his former student at Harvard and longtime friend. More than once in the film, Al acknowledges Carl's influence on his thinking, and his evocation of Carl's " Pale Blue Dot " meditation provides the film with its final spiritual impact. I was reminded of how long it has been since we had a tireless, rigorously scientific, eloquent advocate for the planetary perspective to connect with people everywhere and to awaken us from our stupor; to move us to act in defense of our life-support system. In the last week of his life, Carl wanted desperately to somehow get to that conference(a White House Conference on the Future of Space Exploration) . He knew he was about to die, and he wanted to leave us with a vision of how to build on the epochal achievements of the first 40 years of the space age. He was worried that we were losing our way and our resolve to continue on the long road to the stars. As he lay dying, he managed, with an effort I found heart-wrenching, to dictate the speech. " *The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. " * —Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980 . A few days later, Vice President Gore opened the meeting by reading Carl's words aloud. It was one of the last things I was able to tell him and be certain that he understood. He smiled at the news. What I saw in those hazel eyes was a mixture of affection for Al Gore, a sense of relief that he had been able to communicate with the space science decision makers, and a flicker of concern about the future, one that proved to be, in the short term at least, all too well-placed. Well, maybe two steps forward, one step backward is how we as a species wend our way through history. Perhaps these little detours have some selective advantage as a means of processing change along our pathway to the stars. In the meantime, a global community of people coalesces around Carl's legacy. The chair may be empty, but the ideas, the values, and even the dreams of the man are here now. On 12/6/07, Weintraub <weintraub wrote: > > > > > > Recent Activity > > - 6 > New Members<aapn/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbXIzdXVnBF9TAzk3\ MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0Mjc2NzMEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDgyOTQ4BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZtYnJzBHN0\ aW1lAzExOTY5NTcyNDU-> > > Visit Your Group > <aapn;_ylc=X3oDMTJlaWc2OGJsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycEl\ kAzI0Mjc2NzMEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDgyOTQ4BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZnaHAEc3RpbWUDMTE5Njk1NzI\ 0NQ--> > Green Groups > > on Groups<http://us.ard./SIG=12j31f9er/M=493064.11135488.11710474.8674578/\ D=groups/S=1705082948:NC/Y=/EXP=1196964445/A=4776367/R=0/SIG=11mj2s6kj/*htt\ p://advision.webevents./green/index.html> > > share your passion > > for the planet. > HD > > The official Samsung<http://us.ard./SIG=12j33ge88/M=493064.10972170.11554072.8674578\ /D=groups/S=1705082948:NC/Y=/EXP=1196964445/A=4706130/R=0/SIG=11f8fj6tf/*ht\ tp://tech.samsunghd/> > > Y! Group for HDTVs > > and devices. > Move More > > on Groups<http://us.ard./SIG=12k9p3es6/M=493064.11674772.12153082.11322765\ /D=groups/S=1705082948:NC/Y=/EXP=1196964445/A=4990216/R=0/SIG=11d53kq3t/*ht\ tp://advision.webevents./curves/> > > This is your life > > not a phys-ed class. > . > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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