Comments on: Al Gore - New thinking on the climate crisis http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/ Blogging Greens issues, policies and politics Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:30:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Nancy Poch http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-5565 Nancy Poch Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:38:24 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-5565 Everyone is concerned about what is happening to our environment. All they do is talk no backup or help. We are in a small town, Cripple Creek, Colorado where a large South African Gold mine is strip mining next to our town boundaries, creating a 800 foot deep. They use cyanide and our stripping our beautiful forest. All the important people like commissions are paid not to respect our rights as citizens. All we need is just some important group to show up and let our cause be known but everyone is too busy saving something else ---not our cause. Our watershed may be endangered also. Nancy Everyone is concerned about what is happening to our environment. All they do is talk no backup or help.

We are in a small town, Cripple Creek, Colorado where a large South African Gold mine is strip mining next to our town boundaries, creating a 800 foot deep. They use cyanide and our stripping our beautiful forest. All the important people like commissions are paid not to respect our rights as citizens.

All we need is just some important group to show up and let our cause be known but everyone is too busy saving something else —not our cause. Our watershed may be endangered also.

Nancy

]]> By: Houston http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-5190 Houston Tue, 20 May 2008 20:35:17 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-5190 Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor. Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

]]> By: BilB http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-5032 BilB Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:01:51 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-5032 Further reading here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7363600.stm Try paragrph 5 where it is decalared that environmental carbon build up over the last 200 years is 14,000 times greater than that produced by nature. Further reading here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7363600.stm

Try paragrph 5 where it is decalared that environmental carbon build up over the last 200 years is 14,000 times greater than that produced by nature.

]]> By: Eliana http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-5011 Eliana Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:14:27 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-5011 Looks like "Inconvenient 2" is nowhere as funny as the original: http://www.236.com/news/2008/04/25/an_inconvenient_truth_ii_not_a_6048.php Looks like “Inconvenient 2″ is nowhere as funny as the original: http://www.236.com/news/2008/04/25/an_inconvenient_truth_ii_not_a_6048.php

]]> By: Terry Townsend http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-5002 Terry Townsend Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:18:15 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-5002 A great conference was held in Sydney April 11-13, in which hundreds of attendees heard international speakers including John Bellamy Foster, Patrick Bond and Roberto Perez discuss solutions to global warming. The conference formulated the following statement; audio and video of some of the presentations are available from the links below: Climate Crisis — Urgent Action Needed Now! Statement initiated by participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference, Sydney, Australia, April 11-13, 2008. The conference was organised by Green Left Weekly. The following statement was started by the participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference. It is being distributed to environmental, trade union, Indigenous, migrant, religious and community organisations to help build the movement against global warming. Anyone who agrees with it is welcome to add their signature, and an updated list of signatories will be issued on a regular basis. To add your name, email climatechange.socialchange@gmail.com * Read more at http://links.org.au/node/369 Marxism and the environment -- John Bellamy Foster Marxism and the environment was a workshop given by John Bellamy Foster to the Climate Change Social Change Conference, in Sydney on April 12, 2008. Foster is editor of Monthly Review (USA) and author of Marx's Ecology. The conference was organised by Green Left Weekly. For more audio and video of John Bellamy Foster on related topics, go to http://links.org.au/node/343 Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 A great conference was held in Sydney April 11-13, in which hundreds of attendees heard international speakers including John Bellamy Foster, Patrick Bond and Roberto Perez discuss solutions to global warming.

The conference formulated the following statement; audio and video of some of the presentations are available from the links below:

Climate Crisis — Urgent Action Needed Now!

Statement initiated by participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference, Sydney, Australia, April 11-13, 2008.

The conference was organised by Green Left Weekly.
The following statement was started by the participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference. It is being distributed to environmental, trade union, Indigenous, migrant, religious and community organisations to help build the movement against global warming.

Anyone who agrees with it is welcome to add their signature, and an updated list of signatories will be issued on a regular basis. To add your name, email climatechange.socialchange@gmail.com

* Read more at http://links.org.au/node/369

Marxism and the environment — John Bellamy Foster

Marxism and the environment was a workshop given by John Bellamy Foster to the Climate Change Social Change Conference, in Sydney on April 12, 2008. Foster is editor of Monthly Review (USA) and author of Marx’s Ecology. The conference was organised by Green Left Weekly. For more audio and video of John Bellamy Foster on related topics, go to http://links.org.au/node/343

Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373

]]> By: naught101 http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-4961 naught101 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:59:22 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-4961 Kiashu: George Monbiot, Daniel Quinn, James Hansen, there's heaps of them, but the reason they aren't high-profile is that they DO provide radical suggestions for change. If you really think there's worth in having a grand leader, there's plenty of ways to force the issue: you have a blog, and a network of other blogs, get writing. If you want Gore out of the picture, ignore him, and blast anyone who says Gore is the epitome of environmentalism, cause he isn't. Kiashu: George Monbiot, Daniel Quinn, James Hansen, there’s heaps of them, but the reason they aren’t high-profile is that they DO provide radical suggestions for change.

If you really think there’s worth in having a grand leader, there’s plenty of ways to force the issue: you have a blog, and a network of other blogs, get writing. If you want Gore out of the picture, ignore him, and blast anyone who says Gore is the epitome of environmentalism, cause he isn’t.

]]> By: mcfarm http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-4959 mcfarm Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:16:30 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-4959 Unfortunately Kiashu, it appears that Al Gore is simply a high profile messenger, and we need an entrepreneurial 'doer' as a leading public figure. Can't think of anyone high profile enough on a global stage atm. Al Gore was good in that he was VP and presidential candidate of the world's worst emitter. Now we need someone like Bill Gate's to have a climate epiphany! The current issue of Time magazine has a 'green' cover and Al Gore is interviewed. Interesting to read what the US right wing press are making of the global warming issue just the same. At least they appear to be making it an issue - perhaps the first of many (pun intended). Unfortunately Kiashu, it appears that Al Gore is simply a high profile messenger, and we need an entrepreneurial ‘doer’ as a leading public figure. Can’t think of anyone high profile enough on a global stage atm.

Al Gore was good in that he was VP and presidential candidate of the world’s worst emitter. Now we need someone like Bill Gate’s to have a climate epiphany!

The current issue of Time magazine has a ‘green’ cover and Al Gore is interviewed. Interesting to read what the US right wing press are making of the global warming issue just the same. At least they appear to be making it an issue - perhaps the first of many (pun intended).

]]> By: Kiashu http://greensblog.org/2008/04/22/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-climate-crisis/#comment-4958 Kiashu Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:37:29 +0000 http://greensblog.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-4958 I really wish we had a better and more prominent person than Gore. In the first place, his own lifestyle doesn't exactly make him the poster-boy for low emissions and consumption. But more importantly, he has mixed messages. He overstates the dangers and then understates the measures needed. I come away from his presentations with, "The world is going to BURN AND FLOOD TOMORROW! So, um, change the lightbulb." Couldn't we have someone who is on the one hand moderate and sensible about the dangers, but who also proposes bold measures? I really wish we had a better and more prominent person than Gore. In the first place, his own lifestyle doesn’t exactly make him the poster-boy for low emissions and consumption.

But more importantly, he has mixed messages. He overstates the dangers and then understates the measures needed. I come away from his presentations with, “The world is going to BURN AND FLOOD TOMORROW! So, um, change the lightbulb.”

Couldn’t we have someone who is on the one hand moderate and sensible about the dangers, but who also proposes bold measures?

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