Al Gore is an environmental activist, an author, a business person, a former politician, and a former journalist.He has served as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.
In a resent speech by Al Gore, he states his new approach to global warming and how our economy ties up with this. The survival of United States of America is in our hands and humanity is at risk . So many things are going wrong with our nation. Our nation's economy is turning for the worst, electricity rates and gasoline prices are soaring, many people are are having a hard time, they are losing jobs, home mortgage
s are in trouble, and many business our nation depends on are at distress. Al Gore tells us senior business leaders are disgusted and are advising us that this is just the beginning. We need to make some crucial changes.
The climate is changing and getting worse much quickly then usual. There is a 75% chance that with in 5 yrs the entire polar ice cape will completely disappear during the summer month.This also will affect the melting pressure of Greenland. According to experts one of our largest glaciers is losing about 20 million tons of ices everyday . Senior statesmen and retired military leaders warned of national security threats that an energy tsunami will be triggered because of the loss of oil. There are unusual changes in the weather such as more tornadoes, record floods higher tempters, longer droughts, drier vegetation, and stronger fires. For every 1 degree increase in temperature, lightning will go up another 10%.
The way our nation tends to handles this is by presenting an old solution without really taking the time to analyze the problem. Looking at these three challenges al gore saw the heart to of the problems the crisis is our dangerous over reliance on carbon based fuel. Three major challenges Al Gore talks about is economic, environmental, and national security crisis. According to Al Gore, the solution is to end our reliance on carbon based fuels. Al Gore came up with the conclusion analyzing each problem by doing this he discovered that same solution to the climate crisis are the same measurements needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever rising prices. It is also the same solution needed to guarantee our national security with out having to go to war in the Persian Gulf. Some fuels suggested by Al Gore to replace carbon based fuels were solar energy, wind power, and geothermal energy. The fuels are much cheaper, they don't cause pollution and they are available right here in the United States. Plus enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 10o% of the entire worlds energy needs for a full year. In addition, enough wind power blows in through the Midwest carter every day to meet 100% of U.S. electricity demands. We can start today by using solar energy to run our home and business. The challenge is to commit to producing 100% of our energy from renewable energy clean carbon free resources with in 10 years and yes this is achievable. The goal is achievable. Before it was not possible to accomplish this. Ten year is the maximum time we have to accomplish this goal. Unifying our grid can help our struggling auto companies switch to the manufacture of plug in electric cars. It will save auto jobs and renew our car companies. It will also reducing the cost of driving a car, reduce pollution and increase the flexibility of our electric grid. Al Gore says improving our commitment to efficiency and conservation meaning accomplishment of carefully utilizing natural resources in in order to prevent consumption of a resource. CO2 tax initiative is what Al Gore believes we should pay in taxes. "pay for what we burn not what we earn"Al Gore annoces.
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