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03 Nov 09

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate
Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
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- Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
- guardian.co.uk,
  Monday 2 November 2009
- Al Gore. Photograph by Graeme Robertson
- Al's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.
- In his latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, the man who won a Nobel prize in 2007 for his touring slideshow on disappearing polar ice and other consequences of climate change, concludes: "Simply laying out the facts won't work."
- Instead, Gore tells Newsweek magazine in a pre-publication interview, that he has been adapting his fact-based message - now put out by hundreds of volunteers - to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to protect the planet.
- "I've done a Christian [-based] training program;
- I have a Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up, also a Hindu program coming up.
- I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It's probably my favourite version, but I don't use it very often because it can come off as proselytising," Gore tells Newsweek.
- Gore's book arrives at a time of intense international scrutiny of America's moves on the environment ahead of an international meeting on global warming at Copenhagen, now just more than a month away.
- It draws on the scholarly approach Gore developed for Inconvenient Truth. Since 2007, the former vice-president has been calling experts together from fields ranging from agriculture to neuroscience to discuss possible solutions to climate change.
- The book draws on 30 such "solutions summits", as well as Gore's countless telephone conversations with scientists at America's best institutions.
- According to the book's press release, "Among the most unique approaches Gore takes in the book is
- showing readers how our own minds can be an impediment to change."
- New polling last month showed a steep decline in the numbers of Americans who share Gore's sense of urgency in acting on climate change.
- The book aims to reach those Americans by familiarising readers with emerging alternative energy sources, such as geothermal, biomass and wind power, as well as the possibilities of making cleaner coal power plants, and developing a more efficient and responsive "smart" electrical grid.
- Gore also explores how deforestation, soil erosion, and the rising world population are multiplying the effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions.
- Much of the material was developed through the series of brainstorming sessions organised by Gore.
- Since 2007, the former vice-president has been calling experts together to discuss possible solutions to climate change. He has also held countless telephone conversations with scientists at America's best institutions.
- "He is one of the only politicians that takes the time to actually talk to scientists who are producing the cutting-edge stuff and he comes in with questions.
- He doesn't ask us how our results impinge on a particular policy he actually asks about science," said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist at Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who spoke to Gore along with colleagues four or five times for the book.
- "Nobody that we have dealt with has ever taken as much time to understand the subtlety of the science and all the different complications and what it all means as Al Gore."
- Those conversations led Gore to politically inconvenient conclusions in this new book.
- Gore explored new studies - published only last week - that show methane and black carbon or soot had a far greater impact on global warming than previously thought. Carbon dioxide - while the focus of the politics of climate change - produces around 40% of the actual warming.
- Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions.
- "Over the years I have been among those who focused most of all on CO2, and I think that's still justified," he told the magazine.
- "But a comprehensive plan to solve the climate crisis has to widen the focus to encompass strategies for all" of the greenhouse culprits identified in the Nasa study.
- The former vice-president has been working behind the scenes to try to nudge the White House and Congress to move forward on a 920-page proposed law to cut America's greenhouse gas emissions and encourage its use of clean energy sources like solar and wind power.
- On Saturday, he told the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, he was "almost certain" Obama would attend the negotiations. The White House has so far refused to make a commitment.
- But Gore has also been confronted with almost daily fresh reminders of the difficulties of prodding Americans to action.
- The proposed legislation has set off a ferocious debate about the costs of dealing with climate change - with conservative Democrats and Republicans saying reducing America's use of oil will deepen unemployment and hurt average American families.
  Republicans in the Senate have threatened to boycott a session today that had been called to move forward a draft of a 920-page proposed law to deal with climate change.
- Progress on the bill is seen as crucial to getting a binding deal at Copenhagen.
- Barbara Boxer, the chair of the Senate's environment and public works committee, said yesterday she was ready to move ahead without any Republican participation.

11 Aug 08

The Green Agenda - The First Global Revolution

Looking at the Club of Rome, it's members and agenda

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even back in 1972 the Club considered modern
industrial society to be completely unsustainable.
They state that
even if population was frozen at 1975 levels, and industrial activity
at 1985 levels, then the earth’s ecosystems would still
ultimately collapse.
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- The CoR has not changed these views in the
  slightest, in fact, in the last three decades their warnings have
  become increasingly more urgent and alarmist. They call this imminent
  collapse the ‘World
  Problematique’
  and their proposed solution the ‘World
  Resolutique.’
- The
  Limits to Growth is considered to
  be the most successful environmental publication ever produced and
  propelled the Club of Rome to its current position of an
  environmental thought-leader and a major consultant to the United
  Nations.
- Throughout the 1970s and 80s the
  concept that humanity was irreparably damaging the earth gained
  credence and facilitated the formation of mainstream and activist
  environmental groups.
- However the Club does produce many ‘discussion
  reports’
  that can be found on its website.
- All meetings of the CoR are held
  ‘behind closed doors’ and no public records are kept.
- The United Nations contracts the
  Club of Rome to prepare ‘Policy Guidance Documents’ which
  it uses in formulating its policies and programmes.
- As many high ranking UN officials are
  actually CoR members, this is like a man asking himself for advice,
  and then agreeing with that advice. Not very objective!
- Twenty
  years after the Limits to Growth
  the CoR published another major report that became an instant
  best-seller. In The First Global Revolution
  the Club of Rome claimed that the time to act had run out. It was now
  or never.
- Delay in beginning corrective measures will increase the
  damage to the world ecological system and ultimately reduce the human
  population that will eventually be supportable.
- They also stated that
  that democratic governments were far too short-sighted to deal with
  the ‘problematique’ and new forms of governance are
  urgently required.
- In order not too violate any copyright
  protection I will not reproduce the text of the book on this site.
  However, it is permissible for me to quote a brief excerpt in the
  context of this wider discussion. The complete
  text can
  be found on Google Books.
- As you read the following quotes please
  remember the names of the leaders listed above.
- This is not some
  quirky little cult. This is the stated
  agenda of the
  leaders of the environmental movement:
- It would seem that humans need a common
  motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act
  together in the vacuum;
- such a motivation must be found to bring the
  divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real
  one or else one invented for the purpose.
- New enemies
  therefore have to be identified.
  New strategies imagined, new
  weapons devised.
- The common enemy of humanity is man.
- In
  searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that
  pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and
  the like would fit the bill.
- All these dangers are caused by
  human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and
  behavior that they can be overcome.
- The real enemy then, is
  humanity itself.
- The old democracies have functioned
  reasonably well over the last 200 years, but they appear now to be in
  a phase of complacent stagnation with little evidence of real
  leadership and innovation
- Democracy is not a panacea.
  It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits.
- Sacrilegious though this may
  sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead.
- So,
  long before Global Warming became a well known issue Al Gore and his
  Club of Rome colleagues stated that they would use the threat of
  global warming to unite humanity and "set
  the scene for mankind's encounter with the planet."
- In the same way that shamans and sooth-sayers in medieval times used
  their advance knowledge of when eclipses would occur to control and
  terrify their followers, they would use a natural phenomenon as their
  'enemy' to achieve their objectives.
- But then they state that
  although Global Warming would be presented as the initial enemy, the
  real enemy of humanity would be portrayed as man himself
- I am
  already noticing how frequently the terms climate change and
  overpopulation are being uttered in the same breath.
- Having
  discovered that all these influential environmental leaders were
  associated with the Club of Rome I set about reading all the reports,
  lectures and speeches on their website as well as the reports
  commissioned by the UN. I was amazed to find that they lay out their
  entire agenda for anyone who has eyes to see.
- Exactly the same
  themes, concepts and phrases are repeated continuously throughout
  their publications.
- They are full of references to 'imminent
  collapse', 'dying planet',
  'our mother Gaia', 'wrenching
  transformation', 'united global
  society', 'global consciousness',
  'new forms of governance' etc.
  They truly intend to bring about the world's First
  Global Revolution.
- The
  Kosmos
  Journal provides
  perhaps the best insight into their worldview.
- This Journal was
  founded by the Club of Rome in partnership with with several of its
  sibling organizations. As described in my article, The
  Green Web,
  the CoR has established a network of supporting organizations, each
  focussing on a different aspect of their agenda.
- The Kosmos Journal
  contains many articles written by CoR members.
- The basic premise of
  their worldview is:
- "Modern
  industrial civilisation is fast outstripping the Earth's natural
  regenerative and life-supporting capacity..."
- "At
  current rates of resource depletion and environmental degradation a
  near complete collapse of ecological integrity will occur within the
  next 100 years..."
- "Gaia, our Mother, who nutured
  humanity for countless millenia within her womb of evolution, is
  dying..."
- “A small window of opportunity now exists
  to transform humanity into a sustainable global interdepedant society
  based on respect and reverence for Earth..."
- "A
  radical change from the current trajectory is required, a complete
  reordering of global society..."
- "Humans only truly
  unite when faced with a powerful external enemy..."
- "At
  this time a new enemy must be found, one either real or invented for
  the purpose..."
- "Democracy has failed us, a new
  system of global governance, based on environmental imperatives, must
  be implemented quickly..."
- Gaia,
  Global Warming, and Global Governance are intricately entwined,
  if one truly believes in Gaia, and that she is being fatally harmed
  by the current system, then a new system of global governance and
  control would appear to be the only answer.
- Global Warming provides
  the ideal 'enemy' to bring about this objective.
- It is easy for these
  global elitists to talk about sacrifice, wrenching transformation,
  population control and halving the use of fossil fuels but the
  implications are truely horrendous.
- Even if you think this is
  all nonsense I would ask you to at least read these
  quotes and excerpts,
  and think about the implications of their agenda.
- Everyday I am
  amazed at how quickly things are changing. It is coming hard and
  fast.
- As Al Gore said in the closing sentence of
  his statement after he won the Nobel Peace Prize ... "This
  is just the beginning."
  
  
  
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  Global Revolution
  The Turning Point
  Gaia's Gurus
  The Green Web
  Global Consciousness
  Sustainable Development
  Agenda 21
  The Earth Charter
  A United World
  The Gaia Hypothesis
  Deep Ecology
  The Spiritual UN
  A United Faith
  Settled Science?
  What about Greenland?
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