Posted on 12/03/2009 7:02:16 PM PST by smokingfrog
Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet?
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When making his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore arguably had it easy: it's fairly straightforward to grip an audience when you're portraying scenes of apocalyptic destruction. The new book pulls off a considerably more impressive feat. It focuses on solving the crisis, yet manages to be absorbing on a topic that is all too often – can we just come clean about this, please? – crushingly boring. Importantly, it seeks to enlist readers as political advocates for the cause, rather than just urging them to turn down the heating. "It's important to change lightbulbs," he says, in a well-burnished soundbite, "but more important to change policies and laws." Or perhaps to break laws instead: peaceful occupations of the kind witnessed recently in the UK, he predicts, are only going to become more widespread. "Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. And I expect that it will increase, no question about it." People sometimes express incredulity that Gore, who was groomed for the presidency almost since birth, seems so resolved that he'll never return to electoral politics. But here's a vivid example of the benefits of life on the outside: how many serving politicians would feel able to come so close to urging people to commit trespass?
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
What a sad grasp of adulthood.
Most are certainly angry mobs. Exclusively the extreme left wing variety. A few are not, as demonstrated by the Conservative protest in D.C. a few months ago.
That's the problem with doublespeak; start monkeying with the meaning of words, and pretty soon reason and communication are compromised.
I like paragraphs too.
but
I just posted it the way Oliver wrote it.
Not exactly, try Occidental Petroleum...
the infowarrior
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