Posted on 06/22/2007 8:36:24 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
China’s emergence as the world’s biggest polluter will intensify the pressure it feels from the rest of the world to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, climate campaigner Al Gore says.
Figures released this week showed that China might already have overtaken the US as the biggest emitter of the main gas, carbon dioxide.
“I think that when China is recognised as the largest emitter — it may have happened this week or it may happen next year — it will produce a subtle but significant change in the pressure China feels from the rest of the world to be part of a solution to this crisis,” he said. “But in order to apply that moral pressure, the United States has to join the world’s efforts to solve the crisis. That is why I am spending so much time spending every effort to reach a political critical mass to solve the climate crisis.”
Mr Gore was in London on Wednesday to promote his Live Earth 24-hour concert next month estimated to reach two billion people in every continent, which has been criticised by stars including Roger Daltry and Bob Geldof.
Declining to criticise Geldof, whose advice he claimed to have taken, Mr Gore said it was a “wake up call” that would deliver “powerful messages about the climate crisis” and be “the beginning of a multi-year campaign”.
It will have simple messages like the slogans at the end of his film, An Inconvenient Truth — change lightbulbs, don’t waste water, don’t leave things on standby, drive a more efficient car.
“It will be something people enjoy enormously but it will also send out powerful messages,” he said.
So what is he doing himself? He and his wife Tipper have changed all the lightbulbs and windows in their big house in Nashville and installed insulation, 33 solar panels and a geothermal heating system — a heat pump.
“We’re not there yet,” he said. “We were delayed by local laws that prevented the installation of the solar panels and until recently would not allow us to put the geothermal unit in.”
His famous slide show now includes other “inconvenient truths” he has written about for 30 years — the population explosion, growth of destructive fishing methods and destruction of rainforests and other habitats.
“I have always tried to define the climate crisis as the most prominent symptom of a deeper underlying collision between civilisation as we are currently pursuing it and the ecological systems of the planet,” he said.
Hurts to say this, but we may finally see someone with the guts to smack Gore around a bit.
I’m not worried about China’s ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions. It is all that other sh*t they are emitting that bothers me.
Oh yeah and they will so give a damn too, Al...
Right Al, I’m sure the Chinese will fall all over themselves to do your bidding (fat round-eye).
this guy is not news, not intreresting and not important enought to pay attention too
China could care less about Al Gore and greenhouse gas emissions.
It doesn’t hurt me one bit to say it. So I’ll say that I hope the Chicoms hand him his fat ass and send him on his merry carbon credit way.
You don’t suppose he’s raising funds for another race for the Presidency, do you?
How do you say “F*** You” in Chinese?
The Profit (sic) Algore is likely to find out.
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