Congratulations Al Gore
Posted by Kath Delaney, Founder and Chief Executive Officer on October 12, 2007
Like so many people around the world today, I am so hopeful and happy to hear that Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists, won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering work educating the world about the global climate crisis.
Al Gore spoke today at the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit group he founded last year to raise awareness of climate-related issues. “I will accept this award on behalf of all the people that have been working so long and so hard to try to get the message out about this planetary emergency.” He added that global warming was “the most dangerous challenge we’ve ever faced, but it is also the greatest opportunity to make changes that we should be making for other reasons anyway.”
The first time I worked with Al Gore was in the early 1990’s in New York City. I was organizing a public event in Columbus Circle for Congresswoman Bella Abzug and her newly launched organization WEDO—Women’s Environmental Development Organization. Bella, as we all called her, had asked this young Senator from Tennessee to speak at the event alongside singer Natalie Merchant.
It was that fall morning, similar to today, that I first heard about the growing threat of global warming and radical changes in weather patterns. When he spoke that afternoon, he educated thousands of us about what we could expect in this unprecedented campaign to fight for the only planet we have—earth.
Thank you, Al and the panel scientists, for your tremendous dedication to public service, global action, and paving the path toward solutions and social change.
