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Congratulations and best wishes from us all, Sir!
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This is odd…a Cato Institute member who is a columnist for The American Spectator announced Gore’s win before the Nobel Institute did:
http://www.spectator…
Gore’s statement re winning the Nobel Peace Prize:
“I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
Thank you,
Al Gore”
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Dear vice-President Gore,
Thank you for your tireless work on behalf of all of us who inhabit the planet. Congratulations on being honored for your visionary pursuit of truth and accountability.
The planetary emergency we face is more than environmental, it is a crisis of leadership in politics, diplomacy, and economics. The crisis calls out for leaders
who, with their experience and independence, will turn the energies of governments toward the democratic ideals we cherish while restoring peoples’ faith
in elected institutions.
As you are all too well aware, leaders such as this are few and far between. The co-option of the American electoral system by big money and its minions of lobbyists, consultants and professional politicians for hire is a danger to us all. The systemic distress of our institutions can only be remedied by the kind of passionate concern you’ve demonstrated in your work on climate change. Please add my voice to the many who call on you to re-engage in our own political process and to be the leader of whom history will say, ‘without him, America was lost’.
Thanks again for all you’ve done and will do.