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Al Gore Electrifies Bali Summit

by LindaSFNM, Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 06:41:47 PM EST

Al Gore's oratory electrifies Bali summit

Thursday, 13 December , 2007, 20:05

Bali: In a speech likely to go down in history as an oratorical milestone in the fight against global warming, Al Gore, former US vice-president and co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, electrified the December 3-14 UN conference on climate change on its penultimate evening on Thursday.

Clearly speaking from his heart, Gore exhorted the nearly 11,000 delegates from 187 countries gathered here for the summit to bypass the US government delegation that is threatening to derail the entire Bali roadmap to start global negotiations that will help fight global warming.

Pointing out that climate change was already here, that it was no longer a matter that would affect future generations but was affecting the present one, Gore quoted the famous lines from the Nazi era: "First they came for the Jews and I did not do anything; then they came for the gypsies and I did not do anything; then they came for the neighbours and I did not do anything; when they came for me there was nobody to do anything for me."

Al Gore: I speak to you as a person, a father, a grandfather. I speak to you as someone who for 40 years has tried to understand this crisis and for 30 years, to communicate it-to communicate about it, clearly. I also speak to you as an American. As a citizen of the United States. I'm not an official of the United States and I'm not bound by the diplomatic niceties. (laughter) SO, I am going to speak an Inconvenient Truth. My own country, the United States, is principly responsible for obstructing progress here, in Bali (cheers and applause)-we ALL KNOW THAT. But, my country is not the only one that can take steps to insure we move forward from Bali with progress and hope (applause).

It will be a small group of people that will be the change for all of us.

Al Gore: 'We are seeing the early stages of he first Global PEOPLE Power movement. There will be a mass movement world wide."

I leave you with this video of his inspiring 52 minute speech to the Bali Delegation that Mr. Gore gave today.
rtsp://webcast.un.org/ondemand/conferenc rtsp://webcast.un.org/ondemand/conferences/unfccc/2007/hl/unfccc-071213pm-algore-orig.rm UPDATE: I made a Tiny url for the UN's video archive so it's clickable. http://tinyurl.com/yqp7e4

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. by Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: Al Gore, Bali, UN, Climate Conference (all tags)

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PS, copy and paste the address in an address field. For some reason, these blogs don't like the "rtsp:"

by LindaSFNM on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 06:44:54 PM EST

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Al Gore is a great man. However, I hope he used renewable energy to electrify that summit!

"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman

by Steve M on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 06:55:52 PM EST

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LOL As he says, even Political Will is a renewable resource. :)

by LindaSFNM on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 06:57:22 PM EST
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There was no way he could start a campaign so early while he had all saving the planet going on.

He won't endorse anyone. As he has said, the candidates are not discussing the Climate issue as they should be.

If the Democrats were smart, they would aproach Mr. Gore and ask him to be the nominee. All the polls showed he has more support than all the candidates who have been running. If the Democrats REALLY cared about the majority, than the elite few, if the Democrats cared about the party than just themselves, if they really cared about the people and our future, they will ask Al Gore to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. I already know many REAL Republicans who care about the environment are fully supportive of Mr. Gore, along with the Greens, Inde's Liberals, Progressives and true blue Democrats.

So, isn't it up to them? Mr. Gore after all has said even this year that he would love to be President. A visionary, unmatchable experienced intellect Statesman that has a vision to make the path that we walk to create a better place for all.

As he recently asked, I am keeping my energy in a lock box that only he has a key for. It's up to the Democrats if they will place the betterr for the many, before the want of the few and really make history. Have the World's Leader be America's President.

Time for
a COOL
change,
GORE
2008

by LindaSFNM on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 07:47:42 PM EST

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Why am I the ONLY one to rec'd this diary? hm.

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by kevin22262 on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 09:55:48 PM EST

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Maybe some just don't think about it...or are still jealous of him. But thank you for yours.

by LindaSFNM on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 11:05:39 PM EST
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hmmm....but yours isn't showing as a recommend either.

by LindaSFNM on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 11:07:08 PM EST
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