Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president said fellow Democrat Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain are "way ahead" of most politicians in the fight against global climate change.
Rising fuel costs, climate change and the national security threats posed by U.S. dependence on foreign oil are conspiring to create "a new political environment" that Gore said will sustain bold and expensive steps to wean the nation off fossil fuels.
"I have never seen an opportunity for the country like the one that's emerging now," Gore told The Associated Press in an interview previewing a speech on global warming he planned to give Thursday in Washington.
In his speech, Gore said some of the nation's biggest success stories have come from making commitments to goals well beyond the next election, citing the Marshall plan for rebuilding Europe, Social Security and the interstate highway system, in addition to putting a man on the moon.
"A political promise to do something 40 years from now is universally ignored because everyone knows that's meaningless," he said. "Ten years is about the maximum time that we as a nation can hold a steady aim and hit the target." - continued on nytimes
It seems worth attempting... but I also think we need a back up planet.
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Yeah, "GORE" wants us to abandon fossil fuels? He might want US to, but he doesn't think he's supposed to follow the same rules. Piss on Gore.
It's possible to abandon fossil fuel without to much agony to anyone, if had some descent leadership AND the politicos in Washington STOP FALLING ON THE KNEES TO LARGE OIL COMPANIES. But, so far I haven't seen anyone demonstrate that, including, sorry to say, el Senor Al Gore. He worships at the altar of the MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE GODS, also.
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