Associated Press
October 12, 2007
OSLO — Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change jointly won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for fighting it.
Mr. Gore, who won an Academy Award earlier this year for his film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, had been widely tipped to win the prize. He said that global warming was not a political issue but a worldwide crisis. "We face a true planetary emergency. ... It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity," he said. "It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."
Couldn't happen to a more deserving person. Bravo Mr Gore!
Update:
From the Rude Pundit [http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/], this comparison between Gore and Bush:
It's the difference between a man who traveled and studied the world by choice in his life and a man who has to be dragged to different countries like a particularly incontinent dog is dragged out to the sidewalk on a snowy day.
2 comments:
Comme quoi, il aurrait et elu president, je ne pense pas qu il aurrait ete autant productif pour l' humanite .
Tu ne penses pas qu'il soit capable de cumuler les deux fonctions, président et conférencier? Car après tout, le prix Nobel c'est pour avoir fait oeuvre d'éducateur, il n'a rien inventé, il s'est contenté de dire à toute la planète: faites gaffe, on est près de la catastrophe.
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