How to Stop the Planet from Burning
Gore Mobilizes Global Warming Activists
Hundreds of volunteers from across the country have flocked to Nashville this fall and winter and more are here today as part of a grass-roots training effort to spread the word on global warming. They are taking part in Al Gore's The Climate Project, which mushroomed from his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807EC.shtml
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What Al Gore hasn't told you about global warming
AlterNet
by David Morris
01/09/07
British journalist George Monbiot, author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (Doubleday, 2006) has a theory. 'We wish our governments to pretend to act,' he writes. 'We get the moral satisfaction of saying what we know to be right, without the discomfort of doing it. My fear is that the political parties in most rich nations have already recognized this. They know that we want tough targets, but that we also want those targets to be missed. They know that we will grumble about their failure to curb climate change, but that we will not take to the streets. They know that nobody ever rioted for austerity'...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46318/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gore
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=inconvenient+truth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monbiot
Hundreds of volunteers from across the country have flocked to Nashville this fall and winter and more are here today as part of a grass-roots training effort to spread the word on global warming. They are taking part in Al Gore's The Climate Project, which mushroomed from his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807EC.shtml
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What Al Gore hasn't told you about global warming
AlterNet
by David Morris
01/09/07
British journalist George Monbiot, author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (Doubleday, 2006) has a theory. 'We wish our governments to pretend to act,' he writes. 'We get the moral satisfaction of saying what we know to be right, without the discomfort of doing it. My fear is that the political parties in most rich nations have already recognized this. They know that we want tough targets, but that we also want those targets to be missed. They know that we will grumble about their failure to curb climate change, but that we will not take to the streets. They know that nobody ever rioted for austerity'...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46318/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gore
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=inconvenient+truth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monbiot
rudkla - 9. Jan, 15:38
