"The Most Dangerous Crisis We Have Ever Faced in our Civilization"

To think that if this man were president, like he should be, despite the rightwing which stole the election in 2000, we might have a sustainable system by now. I always thought Al Gore was too conservative, and also too concerned with "civil liberties" (negative rights) instead of civil rights (protecting the people through democratic empowerment) but he has been my champion, and the Earth's champion, on this issue, perhaps the most important issue ever to confront humans:

Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, was the 15th lecturer in the Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton College on Thursday, April 26, in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Mr. Gore’s lecture on the threat of global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” was accompanied by the multi-media presentation on which his best-selling book and Academy Award-winning film of the same name are based. Gore asked those in attendance to take on global warming, calling it “the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced in our civilization.”

Yes, that's actually a former presidential candidate saying such bold words. I am impressed that a somewhat establishment figure would come out and speak the truth, despite how bad it must be for his career and his playing the games of politics. I am also impressed the establishment is letting him get away with it! Could it be that the powers that be see that if they don't stop ruining the Earth, they will have to pay one day? It happened in the first Progressive Era, when businessmen finally realized some of the democratic reforms were for the whole good of society, not just the poor and needy. Maybe we're seeing a shift.


I won't hold my breath, though. As great of a rogue hero that Al Gore can be, in 2008 the contest will likely be between a Republican and a Republican-lite, unless the Democrats appoint Hillary or Obama, but I don't see that as all too likely, despite the rightwing fear of it. I think the corporations that pull the strings of the Democrats would rather die than let them speak the truth about how their practices will kill us all, including them, and all too soon.