Al Gore Earns 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island 
on 02. 6.07
In 2006, many believe that consumers worldwide were finally becoming educated about global warming and its effect on our planet. And many thank Al Gore for being a big contributor to it with his Oscar-nominated documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” Now, the former vice president has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which we can’t be more thrilled about. During eight years as Bill Clinton's vice president, Gore pushed for climate measures, including for the Kyoto Treaty, and after leaving office in 2001 he has campaigned worldwide. According to the AP story, Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, said that a prerequisite of winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference and he believes that Al Gore has done so. “Al Gore, like no other, has put climate change on the agenda. Gore uses his position to get politicians to understand,” Brende said. The decision is traditionally announced in mid-October, with the prize always presented on the December 10 anniversary of the death of its creator, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. There are only a few weeks left to upload your solution to global warming! Get the camera rolling and enter TreeHugger’s Convenient Truths contest! Via ::CNN
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Yay! :)
Awesome, but this'll make the right wingers lose their minds. If he wins they'll never support the nobel proze again... ah well.
Thats great news.
This is fantastic.. Al Gore has done an amazing job of bringing this extremely important subject to the masses. If we are going to successfully deal with Climate Change, we are going to need as many people involved as we can get.
Awesome, but this'll make the right wingers lose their minds.
Too late. You're completely right but it's their own fault that far too many rightwingers make a connection between environmentalism, personality and politics. The myth of the intellectual-socialist-liberal-pussy (which Al Gore happens to fit pretty well) is all over the American right, and gets exploited by people like Bill O'Reilly and Karl Rove. Bush got elected precisely because he embodied the opposite; just look where that's got them. And the rest of us.
So yeah, I'd love to see Gore win! If rightwingers want to alienate themselves further, so be it.
huh? What does making a movie have to do with peace?????
The environment is directly related to world stability. Helping prevent or mitigate global warming is definitely a huge help to world peace.
"The environment is directly related to world stability. Helping prevent or mitigate global warming is definitely a huge help to world peace.
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ummm.....no. A country has never went to war with another country because of the climate.
How does someone submit an idea to this contest?
Nations go to war over resources and global climate change will affect resources such as crops and, most importantly, water. Oh and for some reason or another nations seem to go to war over oil.
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I love Al as much as my mother does, but If what you say is true about nations going to war over natural resources (oil) then the push for astronomical amounts of domestic ethanol production will then inevitably cause war. Let me explain. Currently, about half of U.S. corn is allocated to feed animals. An additional 28 percent is used for domestic food and industrial use. That leaves roughly 18 percent for export. The current projections on ethanol use will consume the exports as well as a good part of the other 78 percent used for domestic consumption.
The current plan will result in increased starvation in countries that have been dependent on our agricultural aid. Middle eastern countries as well as just about every country on the planet are dependent on U.S. grain. Due to the climate in many environments countries are unable to produce enough food to support their populations. In the U.S. what will eventually happen is that prices for virtually all domestically produced foodstuff will dramatically increase because of the lack of an adequate supply of corn.
I will sum this up with a question: Have you ever seen or heard of what a pack of starving animals will do in order to get food? If not, just read a little about North Korea and picture this on a wider scale. And all of this is for what again?
Hmm, isn't this the same yahoo that claimed he created the Internet?
Yeah, that's him...!
"Fool me once...."
Does anybody know which green non-profit Al Gore supports?
We do fight over resources all the time. Iraq, oil. And humanity now uses more resources than the earth can provide, we are running at a deficit. Resources wars we be HUGE in the future. Not just climate, water, fish, grain (especially now that there will be competition for corn as fuel) We have got to get closer to sustainability.
If Al Gore gets a Nobel Peace Prize that organisation will be dead to me. I cannot think of anything more repulsive.
yayyy :) i hope he wins!
I cannot think of anyone in this entire world more deserving of the Peace Prize than Al Gore. He has not only turned this country green, he has turned the world onto green! He has done more than a million people have ever done for the environment and our world. He is a treasure and I feel priveledged that he is alive in my life time. He is "the Goracle!"
He won, and he deserved it! What a wonderful man!!!!
Wow! I guess this means that George Lucas could now also be a viable candidate as well. After all, both he and Al Gore have something in common: they've both made very entertaining Science Fiction movies!
TO EDWARD:
I would like to know why you want the world to know that you are incapable of understanding this issue, outside of your own narrow political bias.
If you do not own a coal-fired power plant, or have some other economic interest, in opposing pollution control, then you must be illiterate. If, however, you are able to read, it would be impossible for you to have not learned that 97% of people surveyed, in the industrialized world, disagree with you—the other 3% own coal-fired power plants or some other, equally noxious, pollution source or they are narrow-minded republicans.
Despite the fact that “the other 3%” have a vested interest in wanting Al Gore sent to a northern Chinese prison, there is little doubt that even they would, easily, understand that you hate Mr. Gore, only because he, unlike you, is not a republican.
And what does a "Theory on global warming" have to do with PEACE?????
David, don't be so inflammatory. I find you, ahem, 'narrow-minded' than him in immediately labeling him as either a 'narrow-minded republican', illiterate, or as the owner of a 'coal-fired power plant'. Such comments do NOT improve the validity of your post, and, if anything make me less likely to respect your opinion.
I for one do not enjoy the fact that Al Gore was given this prize; I could think of a few people who deserve it more, such as Doctors without Borders. Global Warming is an important issue, yes; and Al Gore has done much to promote awareness, though I don't see any correlation between going green and saving lives.
I don't see any correlation between going green and saving lives.
So what you're saying is that you enjoy spending time one websites where you're not welcome. Thanks for clearing that up.
This is the best news I have had all year.
Kudos to Al Gore... not only for winning the coveted prize but for the energy, time, and dedication to take this problem off the back burner once and for all.
TO MAX:
You say you "don't see any correlation between going green and saving lives". How could this be possible? Global Warming will wipe life off of this planet. If that's not saving lives then I don't know what is... just because it may not happen in our lifetime doesn't mean it won't affect more lives. Think about our children and their children and what kind of future they will inherit if this pressing issue is not resolved ASAP.
~Astra~
Al is doing great work in alerting world attention to this ever-increasing global crisis. Pity he hadn't done it ten years earlier!
I agree, he does deserve an award, but I don't think the Nobel Peace Prize is appropiate. There are numerous other more deserving candidates.
Al Gore is a modern-day Paul Revere. Thank-you Al for your courage and strength.
It is about time he got the recognition he deserves.
Didn't phrase that correctly; what I meant to say is that improving the environment, or, more accurately, alerting people about Global warming, as Al Gore did, hasn't done much to create peace.
I do agree that he deserves an award, but the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't seem to fit.
In the late 60s and early 70s the global climate change 1 degree cooler. The hysteria was all about global cooling. Everyone was freaking and speculating about how we were headed for an ice age, blah, blah, blah. Now we go 1 degree in the other direction. Woooooooooo scary. How is this different from the temperature changing on a normal day?
How nice.