Al Gore calls for civil disobedience regarding coal plants at Clinton Global Initiative

Sensible people WANT Energy independence AND clean air . Obama has been a huge disappointment .

In the 60's, people changed things. It took time, but because of the protests, peaceful civil disobedience (and otherwise) things changed.
I guess it's time for another 60's type movement.

Gore is awesome.

Well said.

Civil obedience during this tyrannical administration's single-minded agenda of a small group of people reaping billions in profits at the expense of its citizens & the environment has resulted in gas prices doubling, an even greater dependence on foreign oil further depressing the economy, & still finding ways to keep us fossil fuel dependant, like this clean coal BS. We should be far better off & further along a sane energy path if just as much time, effort & energy were expended continuing to develop a variety of sustainable forms of energy from the elements surrounding us all-solar, wind, water & thermal-were given the same attention that special interest groups (oil companies) give our leaders & lawmakers (most politicians).

Oil Co CEOs were called to testify & explain to Congress how they managed to reap their largest profits in history during such a precarious economy. Where’s the scathing findings of collusion, extortion & refund checks for everyone forced to pay up after being strong armed by an industry that has shown they’re more powerful than our elected officials & the agencies responsible for overseeing such matters?

“If you’re not outraged, then you’re not paying attention“, as the bumper sticker goes.
We’ve been left on a road to nowhere with America’s current financial status an economic wreck looking to get even worse before it gets any better. There is no better time than the present to recognize our leadership has failed us on many levels & that push has come to shove. It’s about time for some collective disobedience. The kind that has worked to accomplish goals “thought to be impossible” throughout Europe for decades.

You can only push people around for so long by outsourcing their jobs, making health care prohibitively expensive, foreclosing on their home & then their car they’ve been forced to live out of & finally steal their life savings accumulated over years of dedicated service before there’s a strong backlash. After broken promises of a brighter future, people will be forced to become uncivil in order to retain what they’ve managed to hang onto & survive in a world where the rules change too quickly for anyone to really have a handle on what’s going to happen next. The time for a revolution at some level is becoming all too real with each passing day. After all, we tried to be civil & obedient & look where it got us.

It is a dilemma... no one running who will stop the ravishing of our human rights to have clean air, water, food, and land from our greedbreeding corporate-run earth rapists!

Kick ass.

You just did sling criticism at me. You claimed that people don't care about global warming if they dont vote for Obama. It is constant campaigning on this site 24/7 and it is actually in all honesty getting tiresome to read. And true Democracy is all about making our own choices come election time without the constant nudging, pushing and guilt trips from others who think they know better. Republicans and Democrats have caused this situaiton. I don't have to support any of them to support solving this climate crisis, and I don't. I would expect that to be respected as well.

What is sad when someone is angry with part of a candidates plan is to shoot the country in the foot by not voting for either. Wow that makes such an impact.

Whether you wish to believe we would not be worse off with McCain and Palin in office I wish you would think again. Not only will the environment suffer so will women, middle class families, and healthcare.

McCain is not fit to be a president. No way will Nadar be elected. So that leaves us with Obama and civil disobedience and other campaigns to stand up for clean energy and fight coal and nuclear.

Jan, I wish you would quit saying I am giving Obama a free pass. I am NOT. I am against part of his energy plan just as I am against nuclear. I see more hope with Obama listening than I do with McCain.

Even Al Gore supports the democratic party over McCain. I am delighted he stood up and made world leaders uncomfortable. It was the right thing to do. I am delighted to give money, participate in WE and work towards healing our world.

I don't sling criticism at you Jan and I would appreciate the same courtesy.

right on!

McCain isn't much worse than Obama when he calls for nuclear as well as coal as part of the solution. So while others have the right to vote for whomever they choose and give whomever they choose a free ride instead of looking at this fairly, I will not vote for either of them as both have ignored the urgency of this crisis. Neither of them have even bothered to acknowledge Mr. Gore's call for 100% renewable energy in 10 years...And I'm not waiting for them or for a coal plant to go up in my neighborhood to start, and actually am getting tired of people using this crisis as a political wedge issue to tell people who to vote for and imply that if they don't vote for Obama they don't care about global warming. Many of us were out here caring loooong before Obama even cared to say 'global warming' when he was running for president and this goes far beyond being president of this country. And as I stated before, if either he or McCain is coronated and do not embrace the 100 in 10 challenge within the first 100 days they should be protested to the hilt. So great, I hope you do stand fairly should it be Obama who continues this country's love affair with coal. Democrats (along with Republicans which is no surprise) in Congress just the day before yesterday as it was reported are allowing the moratorium on offshore drilling to expire...so until I see a bill that calls for 100 in 10, none of them are any better than the other.

I doubt that Clinton was squirming. I am very pleased to hear Gore call for civil disobedience and I am one that will stand up and count.

I am voting Obama as McCain and his intractable policies are worse then Obama's misguided belief that "clean coal" is an answer. When it comes time to build a "clean coal plant" or a nuclear facility I intend to exercise my right to protest.

I encourage everyone concerned with global warming to do the same.

The time is now. We must take action or we will be living a nightmare and passing it on to our children.

Go Al!

And of course, instead of discussing the importance of this in light of the total lack of political will we see, all we see here is the same bs spam and non committal to real action. Seems people love to talk but when asked to walk, they get silent. Don't then wonder why we are where we are now.

One thing to refute your rhetoric which you are spamming again simply because you are an Al Gore hater: The climate crisis is real and you would know that if you had a mind of your own and actually read scientific reports instead of spamming this garbage in all of my threads.