Al Gore spreads environmental gospel before climate talks

[Lodestar]

Source: AFP

Miami (AFP) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore is busily training an army of organizers to go out and spread his environmental gospel ahead of key climate talks in Paris later this year.

The modern world is collapsing around us and we must change our ways, according to the former US vice president, who has led the training of more than 5,000 people in the last 18 months.

At each session, he delivers an updated version of his Academy Award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," using the latest news footage and startling videos to show how the very fossil fuels that have powered so much innovation are leading to the demise of society.

Air so hot it melts airport runways, floodwaters that crumble roads and bridges, methane that blows terrifying holes in Siberia and air pollution so thick it has shortened life expectancy in China by several years featured prominently during his three-hour presentation in Miami this week.

"The world that we have built was built for different conditions," Gore told about 1,000 people who came from 80 countries to attend the three-day climate training session.

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[Hydra]

1. We don't have a lot of time left to address this

Assuming we aren't past the tipping point already, or are willing to "shroud the skies" to reverse it.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Americans are always proud to brag how we lead the rest of the world. Yet when talk of

doing something about Climate Change comes up, if they don't outright deny it or that it is primarily man made they say what can we do? The other countries like China aren't going to change so it does no good and just hurts the economy.

This is why electing Bernie is so important. He is not bought off by the oil companies or big business and he wants to really address it and put his focus on renewables like never before. He is pushing for Publicly Funded Elections (PFEs)to break the stranglehold Special Interests have over our politicians. If we have PFEs we will then have politicians ready to do the will of the people and not the oil companies!

Time is running out and I have grandkids that I don't want starving, fighting rampant diseases, war, or for water. I want there still to be fish and wildlife and an ability to enjoy the outdoors. I certainly don't want to think of their grandfather as part of the cause either.

[niyad]

3. k and r

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. Why is it framed so religiously?

It seems to me a back-handed compliment. A way to criticize and ridicule. Conflating environmentalism with a religion.

"Gore is busily training an army of organizers to go out and spread his environmental gospel ahead of key climate talks"