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One Bright Green Statuette
February 26, 2007 10:54 AM
In the end, Al Gore's slide show won half as many Oscars as Martin Scorcese's epic. Technically, "An Inconvenient Truth" wasn't Gore's film, but he was onstage anyhow.
"My fellow Americans, (laughter), people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it."
Those are a couple of basic lines he's been using already. Gore, once again, insisted he's not running for anything. (Take a look at the Chicago TRIB's take on that.)
And yesterday's Washington Post, pre-ceremony, said "Gore May Be America's Coolest Ex-Vice President Ever."
"Incredible as it may seem, Al Gore is not only totally carbon neutral, but geek-chic cool. No velvet rope can stop him."
Has climate moved beyond politics, as he hopefully says? Or was last night a little display of Hollywood liberalism?
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I'd like to think that the concerns about climate change have moved beyond politics, but, if that were the case, we would now be taking concrete steps in reducing carbon emissions, say, instead of still talking about it. I fear that nothing will be done until some cataclysmic event happens, and even then, it may be too late.
Posted by: chuck | Feb 26, 2007 1:58:07 PM
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