Let's face it, most of the environmental world has always looked with skepticism to the work of Al Gore. Yet, after what the U.S. presidential election of 2000 seemed like a loser, has been able - completely changing the street is entirely devoted to the cause of protecting the environment - to become a successful man even up to receive the 2007 Nobel Prize Peace.
personally consider as its main goal the creation of Live Earth, media event in defense of the climate that has succeeded in attracting millions of people around the world on July 7 of 2007, even more of a documentary titled "An Inconvenient Truth." Among other Live Earth will be repeated in April next year.
The reality is that this man has been reinvented by a great political communicator for the benefit of the environmental cause and, in particular the issue of global warming, the center of the climate conference that starts today in Copenhagen, succeeding where its many environmental organizations are failing: he manages to convey a clear message to everyone. Gore is not primarily aimed at scientists but ordinary people, trying to explain to them where we are simply wrong and what must we do to correct our mistakes, knowing that only by creating a collective conscience sensitive to these issues will be possible to address and resolve the environmental crisis that has hit us.
The book titled "The Choice", (published by Rizzoli), a few days left in Italy, confirms, in my opinion, the qualities of great popularizer of Al Gore. One of the aims of the book is to convince the public that the climate crisis is not an invention of environmentalists as unfortunately - according to Gore - they are looking for a long time to do some of the main oil companies in the world pouring substantial economic contributions to anyone who invents a study demonstrating the strangeness of human activity to global warming.
With the help of the great technical book can also explain to an audience of non-experts what are the main technologies that are already in possession of the man who can, if taken in time, be able to substantially reduce the production of gas emissions and solve our great thirst for energy. Not only that, Al Gore, with extraordinary simplicity and effectiveness is able to convey the message of how to solve both the economic crisis and environmental crisis through the application of these new technologies.
"The choice is really accessible to everyone and especially to those of certain subjects does not have direct knowledge: through a dozen chapters monothematic anyone can easily understand what are the main causes of the increase of global warming on the planet and political reasons that have delayed or otherwise made difficult to achieve an agreement between the countries on Earth to solve the problem.
scan the pages of this that I consider a really good book, for example, you can find out what the differences between energy use concentrated solar thermal (CST) and photovoltaics (PV), how the wind and how it works a wind turbine, working as the new geothermal systems (EGS) and untapped potential which they can ensure in the future, because some types of biofuels are to be taken seriously, unlike others, (no use of corn and that of cane sugar), like the idea of \u200b\u200bcarbon capture and sequestration could represent a real possibility in the future to reduce emissions, but because the nuclear option has to be set aside, the benefits they can bring to the cause of climate proliferation of organic farming systems, and how much will eventually be able to have the battle in favor of increasing energy efficiency. But the book of Al
Gore also offers other, devoting himself, in the latest part number and the advancement of concrete policy proposals, perhaps not always shared, but which nevertheless represented the determination to find solutions to the problem.
The layout of this book is wonderful. Out of some 400 pages that make up more than half is represented by spectacular and sometimes dramatic pictures, each one personally selected by the author and each of them with strong media content.
The only flaws I found in this publication is the first price (35.00 euro), the size and weight (almost 1.5 kg!) Excessive frankly, that if they more like a catalog of an exhibition of art to a popular text in fact make it a bit 'difficult to read. Well, not exactly the kind of book that one can carry around and read on the train, bus or while it is queued to post!
Apart from this, but I think that anyone with a role of some responsibility in protecting the environment should not only try to read but to study this text.
will not be lost time that will take.
All proceeds from the sale of "The Choice" will be entirely donated to the Alliance for Climate Protection, "a nonprofit organization founded by the same Al Gore in 2006 in order to change people's attitude towards the climate crisis, and whose official website is available at http://www.climateproject.org
Soon, in a subtle September, a
continent floating in the midnight sun disappears.
Rivers
fever and back rests on a sea of \u200b\u200bNeptune acid
bones dissolve.
The snow slides down the mountain
ice generates a flood season comes fast
a persistent rain.
(.......)
The shepherd cries
the time of the choice came
here are your tools.
(Al Gore, Nashville, Tennessee, 2009)
Michele Salvadori
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