An Inconvenient Truth
Book description
An Inconvenient Truth—Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance—is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers…
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As a former vice president of the United States, Gore was the best-known American political figure to make climate change a priority personal and professional issue as early as the 1980s, literally forcing it into the United States and world political discourse, meanwhile using mass politics as a springboard to publicize the importance of the issue in the present world and for many generations to come.
As with many people who study the subject, Gore made combating climate change a large part of his life’s work, as he went on a lecture circuit with a ladder and magic marker to…
From Bruce's list on climate change and how to deal with it.
US Vice President Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work and advocacy on climate change.
This critically important and much acclaimed book about the climate crisis now facing our world combines history with evidence from environmental science to combat the views of climate change deniers in a very convincing manner. Its numerous images and statistics should provide us with the incentive to change many of the ways we live our lives, personally, corporately, and internationally.
Fortunately, the messages are slowly being heeded, but we are running out of time.
From Roger's list on making a healthier, fairer, and better planet.
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