On Thursday, July 17, 2008, Al Gore gave a speech in Washington, DC in which he said: "It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil ten years from now."
Bluntly truthful. Refreshingly open.
Did you know scientists are warning there's a 75% chance that in 5 years from now, the Arctic polar ice cap will totally disappear during the summer? (Note to self: write piece speculating on where Santa will spend the summer, whether he'll move the workshop or shut down for the season, and implications for on-time holiday deliveries...)
Watch the speech. And then, as Robert Greenwald says, "Psssst--DO SOMETHING!"
2 comments:
Well, here goes the first comment on the first post on your new blog:
Al Gore is an inspiration, and I think his speech is a fitting direction for our country, for the world, for your blog, heck, maybe even for me.
Here's to Nancy's News Network!
Well, Alan, I just figured out how to reply to your comment.
Hear, hear!
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