Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth in Britain

Al Gore's book and movie, Inconvenient Truth, are making their way to other countries. It's amazing how much more seriously the world takes Al Gore and Bill Clinton than George W. Bush. Here's an excerpt from a British website that carries an interview with Al Gore:

'"The whole purpose of this movie and the book is to speed up the point at which the majority of the people in my country and the world as a whole see and accept and understand what the climate crisis is all about, how dangerous it is and how we can solve it because we don't really have too much time.

"According to leading scientists, who are now saying for the first time that we may have less than 10 years, that we will pass a point of no return unless we make significant changes quickly. Some have an even darker prediction. I think we still have time.

"The polluters worldwide who are determined to stop any restrictions have much more influence than they should have in the political process, not only because of the inappropriate role of money in politics but also because the great mass of the majority of people who are affected by this crisis have not spoken up.

"If, for example, after 9/11 the US had been rallied effectively by President Bush, if, in addition to invading Afghanistan to hunt down Osama bin Laden, there had been an effort to rally the American people to become independent of oil and fossil fuels, I think the people would have followed in those circumstances.

"There should have been changes in laws and policies then. We have all the technologies we need to start the fight against global warming. We can build clean engines, we can harness the sun and the wind, we can stop wasting energy....

It's too bad we have so many politicians in our country who can't think beyond the next election cycle. We need leaders who can think about the future, a future that's racing towards us faster than we are willing to deal with yet. The key is thinking about our children and grandchildren. They are the ones who are going to have to live with our decisions. But more than half of all people now living are going to see the problems that will be coming in the next twenty to a hundred years.