Al Gore Wins Gothenberg Prize For Efforts To Promote Sustainable Development - AFP

[hatrack]

Al Gore picked up his latest award for campaigning on climate change issues when he was handed the Gothenburg Prize for sustainable development Tuesday, organisers said.
The former United States vice-president and co-winner of the 2007 Nobel peace award, alongside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was handed his prize by Crown Princess Victoria, heir to King Carl XVI Gustaf's throne.

"Like no other person, he has called on mankind to save the planet," event spokesman Stefan Gadd told AFP after a ceremony attended by over 6,000 people in the south-western city.

Gore received one million Swedish kronor (105,000 euros or 155,000 dollars) in recognition of his "relentless commitment to put an end to the climate crisis by increasing public awareness about global warming".

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http://www.terradaily.com/2007/080122235510.0mxpsrw0.html

[Hekate]

1. Let me be the first to Kick and Rec for this remarkable man

Why on Earth would Nobel Laureate Gore ever want to waste his elder statesman capital on running for president again?

Gods willing we will get a Dem in the WH this November, and gods willing that person will call on Al Gore and actually implement his ideas.

Hekate

[polichick]

2. I'll second that! nt

[GliderGuider]

3. While I revere Al Gore as a living god just as much as the next greenie

I have to say that every time I read the phrase "sustainable development" I get a shot of ice water running through my veins.

There is no such thing, not with what we've already done to this planet and the other creatures trying to live on it. "Sustainability" yes, "sustainable development" - not on your life.

[Nihil]

4. I read it slightly differently ...

> There is no such thing, not with what we've already done to this planet
> and the other creatures trying to live on it. "Sustainability" yes,
> "sustainable development" - not on your life.

I read "sustainable development" as "trying to ensure there are survivors",
not just trying to band-aid the existing situation but trying to make a
positive move from "bad" to "good" (or, at least, "better"), i.e., somewhat
parallel to your concept of "lifeboat communities".

:shrug: