Gore writes a new, hard-hitting foreword to a reissue of his bestselling book "Earth in the Balance"

Gore says U.S. business woken up to global warming
18 Jun 2007 17:11:18 GMT
Source: Reuters


By Jeremy Lovell

LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Businesses across the United States have woken up to the climate crisis but the administration of President George W. Bush is failing to act fast enough, according to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

In a new, hard-hitting foreword to a reissue of his bestselling book "Earth in the balance", Gore says Wall Street and city mayors across the United States have started to take action and, while time is running out, the battle is not lost.

"Wall Street knows we have a problem, and I believe that with the right signals and the right investments, we can create the kinds of public-private partnerships that will unleash the power of the markets to solve the climate crisis," Gore wrote.

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In the new foreword Gore, who says mankind is on a collision course with nature, accuses the Bush administration of being the willing tool of the oil majors in actively undermining the warnings of climate scientists.

The former presidential candidate pipped at the post by George W. Bush in elections in 2000 said the science of climate change was no longer in dispute, what was still lacking was the political will to translate that into effective action.

"Unless we act boldly and quickly ... we are in grave danger of crossing a point of no return within the next 10 years," he wrote.

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I've been wanting an excuse to buy Earth in the Balance again. My old copy mysteriously vanished. I think it might have been made with recycled ice flows.

I should dig out my copy and read it again.