Our Choice, Al Gore's new book

Al Gore's new book is going to be released in just a few days on Novermber 3rd 2009

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Synopsis

A Call to Action that Answers the Questions Posed by the Grammy Award-Winning An Inconvenient Truth

It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective will.

Properly understood, the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of suffering and misery that have long been neglected, and to transform the prospects of future generations, giving them a chance to live healthier, more prosperous lives as they continue their pursuit of happiness.

Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that, together, will solve this crisis. It is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action — not only on an individual basis, but as participants in the political processes by which every country, and the world as a whole, makes the choice that now confronts us.

There is an old African proverb that says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." We have to go far, quickly.

We can solve the climate crisis. It will be hard, to be sure, but if we can make the choice to solve it, I have no doubt whatsoever that we can and will succeed.

— AL GORE, from the introduction

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Our-Choic...e/9781594867347

Finally!! :clap:

Thank you, Wayne.





Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Al Gore
signing

Our Choice
Sunday, November 8 at 3:00 pm

Our Choice, is an inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions that really work.

This is a line-ticketed event. Tickets are free with purchase of this book from Davis-Kidd Booksellers. Gives Back Members get the chance to meet the author first!

We ask your cooperation with a few guidelines that will allow Al Gore to sign as many books as possible. This is a line ticketed event. Tickets are free with the purchase of this book from Davis-Kidd Booksellers. Gives Back Members get the chance to meet the author first! Your line number, obtained with your purchase of Our Choice, will determine your place in line. Each group consists of approximately 25 people. This is a "signature only" signing. No personalizations. No posed photographs.



This post has been edited by TNblue on Oct 26 2009, 11:53 PM

That's great! I'd look for many appearances on the talk-show circuit so he can hawk the book. At least this time there won't be any sub-script of whether or not he'll be running for president. :rolleyes:

If you live in the Seattle area



An evening with Al Gore, author of 'Our Choice'


Former Vice President Gore will be in Seattle to discuss his latest book, 'Our Choice', a call to action that picks up where 'An Inconvenient Truth' left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis. A co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the solutions that really work, including some bold initiatives that were deemed impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining support around the world. Over the past few years, Mr. Gore has led more than 30 'Solution Summits' with top scientists, engineers and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail. 'Our Choice' draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, outlining how the bold choices necessary to save the earths climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress. As they did with 'An Inconvenient Truth', former Vice President Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore will donate 100% of the proceeds of the book to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group dedicated to spreading awareness about the climate crisis and how to solve it. 'Our Choice' will feature 100% recycled paper, locally produced and sourced editions, low VOC inks, and will be carbon neutral.Mr. Gore will be speaking at Town Hall Seattle at 7 pm on Tuesday, November 17th. A copy of 'Our Choice' is included in the per person ticket price of $25.Ticket holders names will be on a checklist at Town Hall Seattle (no physical tickets will be issued). At check in, attendees will receive a copy of the featured book, which Mr. Gore will sign following his talk and the audience question & answer period. He will sign copies of the new book, but due to time constraints, he will not provide personalized messages; photos can be taken during the book signing only, and posed photos with Mr. Gore will not be permitted. Doors will open at 6:15pm.We'd like to thank our gracious sponsor, Grist. You can learn more about Grist here: http://www.grist.orgFor further information on this event, please go to www.kimricketts.com, or contact the Book Events office at 206.632.2419 or by email: info@kimricketts.com

Where: Town Hall

Source: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/77240

When: 7:00pm Tue 11.17.09-9:00pm Tue 11.17.09



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This evening I pre-purchased my (limit of) 3 books and signed up for the program that gets me in the first group for the signing.

I'm good to go on the 8th! :good:

Congratulations! Give him a hug for me! ;)

How exciting, TN!!

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/10/28/al-gore...k-on-letterman/


Al Gore To Promote New Climate Change Book On ‘Letterman’

Michael d'Estries @ 2:46 pm

October 28th, 2009

Expect to see a lot more of Al Gore in the media over the next couple weeks.

The Nobel Prize winner and Former VP is about to release a new book on the environment titled “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” On sale November 3rd, it was created by Gore a follow-up to his 2006 book “An Inconvenient Truth”. Whereas that one dealt with explaining what climate change is and how it will impact us, “Choice” is more about the solutions we can pursue to prevent irreversible damage to our planet. It’s also meant to inspire others to take action; unlike “Truth” which made me want to reconsider having children.

“[This book] is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action—not only on an individual basis but as participants in the political processes by which every country, and the world as a whole, makes the choice that now confronts us,” he writes in the forward.

In terms of green cred, it comes fully loaded: 100% recycled paper, locally produced and sourced editions, low VOC inks, carbon neutral, and 100% of the proceeds will go towards the Alliance for Climate Protection. To publicize the launch, Gore will appear on The David Letterman Show next Tuesday night to discuss the book in a bit more detail.

And finally, don’t be surprised if this one is turned into a film as well. I’m sure there’s a tiny bit of room left on the mantle for another Oscar.

Thanks for posting that, AGIML. Will have to make sure to catch that one.

It will be the November 3, 2009 show. I have to make sure I don't forget, usually don't stay up that late.

Here's another article about AL GORE on Letterman.

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2...25411256686586/


Al Gore to be a guest on 'Letterman
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Published: Oct. 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has agreed to be a guest on "Late Show with David Letterman," CBS said Tuesday.

The author and environmental activist is expected to make his sixth appearance on the "Letterman" episode to be broadcast Nov. 3.

"Gore will release his new book about the climate crisis, 'Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,' on the same day as his 'Late Show' appearance," CBS said in a news release. "The 45th vice president of the United States, who served with President Bill Clinton for eight years, Gore has also authored the bestsellers 'Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,' 'An Inconvenient Truth' and 'The Assault on Reason.'"

Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," won Academy Awards in 2007 for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. Gore was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work.

He is the co-founder and chairman of the cable news channel, Current TV.

I remember seeing the last interview Gore did on the Letterman show. I was very impressed at how good a job Dave did at interviewing. He has a nice way of switching from being a comic to being serious. I even remember during 2000, Letterman interviewed G W Bush, and asked him tougher questions that any "news journalist" that I ever saw.

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We got the Costco Connection magazine and Al Gore is on the cover with an article inside on page 24.

http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200911#pg1

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On the other hand, the knuckle-dragging community is quite upset

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374192/posts

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Climate Change


11/02/2009

SPIEGEL Interview with Al Gore
'I Am Optimistic'

In a SPIEGEL interview, former US vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, 61, discusses Barack Obama's environmental policies, the endless push by lobbyists to derail reforms and his hopes for a global deal at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month.

SPIEGEL: Mr. Vice President, you write in your new book, "Our Choice," (to be published in German translation on Nov. 23 as "Wir Haben Die Wahl") that we have at our fingertips all of the tools that we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient would be collective will. What makes it so hard for governments to implement change even though most people know what needs to be done?

Gore: As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. Neuroscientists point out that we are inherently better able to respond quickly to the kinds of threats that our evolutionary ancestors survived -- like other humans with weapons, snakes and spiders or fire. Also, there is a real-time lag between the causes of the climate crisis and its full manifestation. That makes it seem less urgent to many people.


SPIEGEL: But America always took pride in being faster and more flexible than other nations. Does that no longer apply?

Gore: America 's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies. The power of television and of money has grown exponentially. Eighty percent of the campaign contributions that candidates and officials running for re-election raise and spend go to TV ads, so they are required to raise enormous amounts of money, mainly from business lobbies. In a way, that has "re-feudalized" the political power and it gave much more power to established interests. When Obama was elected, I said: "What an exciting moment in our history." But his election did not cure all of the problems in the American system.

SPIEGEL: Seventeen years ago you, a young Senator from Tennessee, and Bill Clinton, a young governor from Arkansas, moved into the White House on the promise of change. Clinton played the saxophone and there was a feeling of spring in the air. Why has it been so much tougher for Barack Obama?

Gore: It was hard for us, too. Just remember the resistance to our health care reform bill. Obama's progress on health care has already surpassed what we were able to do on health care. He will get a climate change bill adopted. So I am optimistic. These are still the early days of the Obama presidency. He had a bad summer, but he is having a good fall.

SPIEGEL: Isn't it getting harder and harder to remain an optimist?

Gore: I think there is a realistic basis for optimism. The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested. They felt shut out of the conversation of democracy during the television age, but they are coming back. It is not an accident that virtually every progressive reform movement in the world is now based on the internet. There are more than 1 million, perhaps as many as 2 million grass-roots organizations that have been established worldwide on the issue of the climate crisis, most of them on the Internet.

SPIEGEL: Obama's political opponents also rely on the Internet, though. Could the reason for the resistance to his government be his skin color? Former US President Jimmy Carter said many Americans still have a problem with a black man in the White House.

Gore: There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.

SPIEGEL: Perhaps the aggressive reactions can be explained by the fact that he, you and large parts of the Democratic Party misinterpreted the will of voters. Perhaps the last election had less to do with a desire among voters to implement transformational change than just getting rid of Bush.

Gore: Isn't that all related? The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. The difficulties the new government has encountered are in the Congress, and they are connected to the growing influence of business lobbies and people who are simply afraid of government.

SPIEGEL: Is that a new phenomenon?

Gore: People in Congress listen less to each other. The Senate chamber, for example, is now commonly empty when speeches are made. That was different in the past and I know why it has changed. The chamber is empty now because the senators have to be at cocktail parties and fundraisers to raise money. They feel as if they have to spend virtually all their time raising money.

SPIEGEL Interview with Al Gore
'I Am Optimistic'

Part 2: 'It Is Realistic to Expect a Treaty'

SPIEGEL: Isn't Obama's plate too full? He conducts war in Iraq and Afghanistan, he wants to close Guantanamo, he is trying to reform the health care system, he is promising progress on climate change and wants to strengthen, almost in passing, the rights of trade unions and homosexuals. Isn't that too much change for a rather conservative country like the United States?

Gore: I disagree with that criticism. After eight years of retrogression, Obama would have been more bitterly criticized if he had chosen only one priority and had not tried to address the many challenges that need to be undertaken. So I do think there is a grain of truth to it, but I also know that his mandate was and is strongest at the beginning of his term.

SPIEGEL: But Obama hasn't achieved much so far -- most of the reforms he announced still haven't been implemented. Many people already call him a sweet talker -- all talk, but little action.

Gore: One of the tools that a president has is to command the attention of the American people. It has to be used judiciously. There is such a thing as overexposure when a president depreciates the welcome. I think it is too early to make that judgment. There have been times when I thought that President Obama maybe got close to that line -- for instance, with regard to his television interviews. But it is the most powerful tool he has to make his direct presentation to the people.

SPIEGEL: The financial crisis hasn't made the president's job any easier. Are times of material want fundamentally bad for reform politicians?

Gore: The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist. Therefore, more and more Americans begin to realize that the right response to the climate challenge will also help with the economy and a more balanced budget.

SPIEGEL: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was less optimistic after the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. She did not believe there would be a majority for a US climate change law in Congress before the world climate summit in Copenhagen in December.

Gore: I am more optimistic. I do not think that we will have the final enactment of the Conference Committee Report in Congress before Copenhagen. But if President Obama is able to go to Copenhagen having passed legislation in the House and having passed it in the Senate, it will be inevitable that the legislation comes out even if the Conference Committee is still pending.

SPIEGEL: What are your expectations for Copenhagen ?

Gore: I think it is realistic to expect a treaty. It will not be as strong as I would like it to be. But it will put a price on carbon and change the forward planning of businesses and cities and states, provinces and nations. In 1986, when the first crisis of the global atmosphere emerged with the discovery of the ozone hole above Antarctica, one year later the nations of the world passed the Montreal Protocol. It was bitterly criticized by environmentalists as being too weak and insufficient. But then it was toughened and toughened, and it is working quite well, and we are on our way to solving that crisis. I am expecting a similar process for Copenhagen. We will produce a treaty that launches the beginning of a huge transformation process.

SPIEGEL: The US is expecting more commitment from China. Should Obama use his upcoming Asia trip to increase pressure on Beijing?

Gore: They have to accept binding provisions. Many developing nations are still thinking that the wealthier countries will take binding obligations, and the developing countries will have non-binding provisions. That is not a formula for success. In an IT-empowered outsourcing world it is very easy to replicate the technological basis for production in low-wage countries. Workers in Germany and the United States and other wealthy nations fear for their jobs. We can't tell them: "We are going to have these binding obligations, but the places that have already gotten some of your jobs are going to have no obligations at all." That wouldn't work.

SPIEGEL: Isn't that even more of an incentive for developing nations not to accept any binding emission caps?

Gore: They are starting to feel the consequences of such a policy. India now faces the prospect of black carbon emissions greatly accelerating the melting of ice that forms the source of the majority of the water in the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers. They must cut back on black carbon for their own survival.

SPIEGEL: Do you see indications of a shift in awareness in China, which is the second greatest polluter in the world after the US?

Gore: China has been changing fairly dramatically on this issue. While they are still opening a new coal-fired generating plant every eight or nine days, they will soon be the No. 1 power in wind and the No. 1 power in solar. In each of the last several years, they have planted two and a half times as many trees as the rest of the world put together. They are building an 800-kilovolt supergrid that, by 2020, will be the most advanced in the world. They have revised their new five-year plan, beginning a little over a year from now, to adapt the formula by which all bureaucrats and officials are evaluated for advancement or not. They have placed their success in reducing CO2 as one of the principal factors by which they pursue their career successfully or not. These are significant changes.

SPIEGEL: Will Obama travel to Copenhagen ?

Gore: He hasn't told me that he will, and no one representing him has told me that he will. But I see the calendar, I see unfolding of events and I feel certain he will go.

SPIEGEL: The White House is currently dampening expectations, because if the American president travels to Copenhagen for the summit, the rest of the world will expect a binding agreement form the United States on emissions caps.

Gore: Yes, of course. President Obama has already enacted a binding set of regulations that require a cut in emissions. But the big difference will be whether or not the Senate legislation on climate change passes or not. I believe that the draft bill introduced by Senator John Kerry and Senator Barbara Boxer really does open up very new prospects. They are likely to add a title to the draft that expands support for nuclear energy. I also think they will add some provisions accelerating the substitution of gas for coal. Gas has only half the CO2 emissions of coal and two-thirds of that from oil. I think that will also generate more support and split the energy lobbies somehow. Therefore, I think there is a very real prospect that the legislation will pass, and that as a result, Obama will have the ability to go to Copenhagen with a more substantive position.

SPIEGEL: How do you see your own role in this process?

Gore: Sometimes the language of Yiddish is the most expressive. I want to be a "nudge" in Copenhagen. Someone who is pushing for action.

SPIEGEL: The most effective way to "nudge" people into action is to be President of the United States of America. Will you ever run for this office again?

Gore: Well, I am trying to recover from politics. But of course there is always a danger of a relapse when you are in recovery.

SPIEGEL: Mr. Vice President, we thank you for this interview.

Interview conducted by Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/...,658673,00.html

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Gore's going to be on Letterman tomorrow night talking about the new book.

This post has been edited by JamesAquila on Nov 2 2009, 10:28 PM