At Stake Is Nothing Less Than The Survival Of Human Civilisation

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/19/nclim19.xml&page=1
At stake is nothing less than the survival of human civilisation
By Al Gore, the former American Vice President
Last Updated: 12:28am GMT 19/11/2006Page 1 of 6


"It is important to understand that there is not just one strand of evidence leading us to believe that global warming is occurring, but rather that all of the peer-reviewed evidence, from scientists around the world, points in the same direction. To be sure, not all of the finest workings of the climate system are yet fully understood to the finest grain. However, all of the basics are absolutely clear.

Global warming is real, human activities are causing the problem, many of the solutions are available to us now, it is not too late to avoid the worst, and all we need to get started solving the crisis is the political will to act... Sir Winston Churchill said: 'One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.'

We learned this lesson again the hard way in the U.S. when we were warned that the levees were about to break in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina and those warnings were ignored. Later, a bipartisan group of members of Congress, chaired by Representative Tom Davis, a Republican from Virginia, said in an official report: 'The White House failed to act on the massive amounts of information at its disposal'...

By rising to meet this historic planetary emergency, we have the opportunity to become not the selfish and self-destructive generation, but the next Greatest Generation."

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1. Bravo, Mr. Gore

God, how you inspire me on this issue. THANK YOU.