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Friday, October 12, 2007
Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize for Climate Work
Today in Oslo the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former Vice President Al Gore as well as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their efforts to alert the world to the threat of global warming.
The Nobel citation read, "Mr. Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted."
Al Gore was traveling in San Francisco when he heard the news and made a statement at a press conference in which he made known his honor to receive such an award and his intentions for donating his half of the prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection, which is a non profit organization. He went onto say, "We face a true planetary emergency, the climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."
Former President Jimmy Carter, who won a Nobel Prize in 2002, commented on the Today about Al Gore's winning saying he didn't think anyone deserves it more.
For me the fight for global warming awareness is most important. This issue got my attention my junior year of college. It was over five years ago and this topic was not embraced at the college I attended. I remember doing a presentation on this very subject - I was the only one with charts, demonstrations, a pointer, the works. Not only this, but I was passionate about my topic and making people on my campus aware, as well as the world. I had hoped to be chosen to travel abroad on a school study abroad trip to study this topic, raise awareness to everyone I spoke with, and come back to campus presenting the student body with all the information and facts I gathered. I won't forget the way I felt when my professor told me this wasn't an issue let alone a topic for discussion and study. I found it interesting and encouraging to find the very next day the issue of global warming being the front page story in the New York Times. It was a very bold thing for me to take that paper and drop it on my professor's desk right in front of him. I believed then and still believe today that doing what we can to make the world we live in better is always something we need to strive toward. There is still a battle in raising awareness and some people still refuse to believe in global warming and the harmful affects. I hope and pray that this theory is laid aside as well as peoples political views and we come together working toward healing and helping the world we call home during our season of life on earth. It's important to do what we can while we can. What could be better than a life filled working toward leaving the world a better place. I commend former Vice President Al Gore for his efforts to raise awareness.
Please go to the New York Times for a full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/13nobel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
To learn more about global warming and how you can help in this cause visit this site:
www.climateprotect.org
To find out information on building environment friendly homes click the link below:
www.gogreenhomes.com
I have a friend that is building one of the first environmental friendly "go green" type homes in Little Rock. I can not wait to see how it turns out and am looking forward to seeing more of these homes being built in our "Natural State".
Pictures of the effects of Global Warming:
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Icebergs melting in the North Atlantic Sea in Vatnajokull, Iceland.
Some ways we can help:
Recycle
Don't pollute
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Plant Trees and preserve forest
posted by Suzanne Bartolomei at 7:43 AM
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1Comments:
Does anyone really care that much about the environment? Are voters going to go to the voting booth and saying, hey, Al must be right. I ought to sell my stock in General Electric or Ford Motor Co. (is Ford even worth anything anymore?) and build myself a eco-friendly house and buy one of those ethanol sugar and corn powered car. Not until we have $6/gallon gas will we really wake up and do something.
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