Al Gore Gives a Groundbreaking Speech And?

I am excited to find your upload and share your concern. Let's stop griping and send the Al Gore video to all your friends and inspire them to sign on. That's what I did and I am doing the same with the hope and excitement I feel for our changing political diorama. People like Barak Obama, Al Gore, Van Jones, Dennis Kucinich, are all inspiring and I am resolved to be on the bright side! Stay with me and keep reminding people that we are the change!

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Nice Jan-

Lou Dobbs is right, the collective mind of the US is in the toilet. Too bad he's perpetuating the problem, that old ragged douche...

Don't be discouraged Jan. One way or the other, things WILL change. Weather it's through people waking up from their advertising induced slumber or weather it's from large companies learning that green makes green, it will happen.

Smile, it's contagious!

Love ya Jan!!!!

ifm: I didn't type this because I think Current is Al Gore's station. I typed this because Current touts not being like the mainstream media which gives you the one way dialogue and doesn't cover the truth nor educates us. It is bad enough that everytime Mr. Gore gives a speech it is either not covered or the MSM cable news cover about ten minutes and then switches over. They did it yesterday too... I was sitting down with my son to take a look at MSNBC and they switched to John McCain. And it was so ironic that the live stream on CNN on the Internet was sponsored by Bank of America, the financial backer of the coal industry. Current is the one place I hoped to see this important speech about the planet free of MSM BS based on the fact that our media seems to think him and this important message irrelevant.

And as for posting something that can get 90 hits or whatever in a day, the post I made regarding the announcement of this speech had exactly that and was nowhere to be found. I also can't sit all day cutting and pasting as it appears some who always make it to the frontpage lately with four or five posts at once from Yahoo news can do. My point is, if I can see it on Yahoo why would I want to see it here? I want to see here what I won't see on Yahoo or CNN and especially FOX.

But again, as I have been told here by certain people, there are more important things than the environment... And I suppose those things include oogling "boobs", S&M dolls, people who are sexually perverse and other assorted Entertainment Tonight type stories. I expected better from this site to be honest because I see the quality of the stories changing. I am just grateful for the few good and informative postings I do see here and the few people I read here whom I know are serious about important issues as well, this being one of them.

Good for him.

What he says is common sense, and it is appalling how little real press he's getting and how much anger it's generating in people like Lou Dobbs.

Did anyone catch Lou Dobbs editorial tirade against Al Gore's initiative being an abstract concept out of touch with the average American on CNN last night? Outrageous.

All you really need to do if want Al Gore's Speech to get attention is title it "Look at these boobs" or "big penis" or maybe something obscure like "Do you count your poop?" At least it will get many clicks to open even if they don't read it. kinda sad. I have been tempted, for months now, to try this experiment.

I agree with you Jan. It seems business as usual, the race to the bottom.

I don't understand why this challenge does not wake people up. Even those who are not believers in climate change should be on board with this because of its economic implications.

While we are debating about drilling for more oil offshore and in ANWR -- neither of which will impact gas prices for 10 years and that impact will be extremely slight at best and probably not at all -- many other countries are making strides in renewable energy.

Europe is taking a leadership position. They are building floating wind turbines (http://current.com/items/89108388_floating_wind_turbines_poised_to_harness_ocean...) and the UK just added the first tidal power turbine to their electric grid (http://current.com/items/89112918_first_tidal_power_turbine_gets_plugged_in).

All this while our government is talking about more oil that will not make a dent in energy independence or jobs.

And the impact of all this is that we are missing a massive opportunity to be at the forefront of a massive global industry. We will be importing technology and following the leadership of other countries.

Al Gore issued a bold challenge to a government that is too afraid to take bold action. They can't think about 10 years from now. They need to think about their next campaign. Its a race to the bottom.

Thanks stopnoise, and Jubal, I think you're right, but it is more than that. Al Gore should be important as a man challenging the status quo. And he is one of many delivering this message, but was one of the first to warn us. How would we have fared all those years ago if Thomas Jefferson had written the Declaration of Independence and it was filed in the trash because the Continental Congress in Philadelphia lost their nerve? But they didn't do that because they saw the higher purpose and realized that the trepidation and fear they felt were not as important as the task at hand. That is where we are at now with our planet. This is such an important message that goes beyond partisan hate and bickering and even money. we always have money to fight wars, and the same who will trash Al Gore for his vision see no problem with that so you know it really isn't about money to them. Oh well... now I wait to see which "presidential" candidate comes forward to support Al Gore on this... I have a feeling the silence will be deafening.

Right on Jan, I don't think Al Gore is as important to Current as he used to be, even though he did have a hand in starting the thing.

That amazes me as well Jan! Thanks for voicing that up!