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In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President, Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide mobilization can save us from disaster and presents a brilliant and comprehensive plan for action that encompasses not only the earth's ecology, but also population trends, appropriate technology, and environmental education.

Here is a visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith have combined with the public sphere's degradation to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason. Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason explains, we have precious little time to waste.

Al Gore has been advocating on Earth's behalf for 25 years. In An Inconvenient Sequel, he recounts and contextualizes the critical issues and moments in the climate change movement since the release of An Inconvenient Truth more than 10 years ago and highlights the real solutions we have at hand to change the planet for the better.

Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world....

"The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency....[I]nconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't diminish; it grows." -Al Gore

" Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that, together, will solve this crisis. It is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action - not only on an individual basis but as participants in the political processes by which every country, and the world as a whole, makes the choice that now confronts us." (Al Gore, from the Introduction)

In the second presidential debate of Campaign 2000 between Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush, the candidates, clearly using more caution than in their first debate, stated their positions on such issues as foreign policy, racial profiling, and the environment. The debate took place at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC on October 11 with Jim Lehrer as moderator. If you missed the debate, or want to hear it again, audible.com has made this program available for FREE. Listen now before you vote!

Al Gore, the former Vice President of the United States, speaks on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 28, 2008.

The first in a series of highly anticipated debates between presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush took place at the University of Massachusetts on October 3. The VP and the Governor wasted no opportunity to criticize each other on everything from policy to credibility to track records. If you missed the debate, or want to hear it again, audible.com has made this program available for FREE. Listen now before you vote!

If you missed the debate, or want to hear it again, audible.com has made this program available for FREE. Listen now before you vote!

In brave and unforgettable terms, Al Gore, the passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, describes how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us.

Der ehemalige Vizepräsident der USA, Friedensnobelpreisträger und Bestsellerautor Al Gore wagt einen Blick in die Zukunft, identifiziert diejenigen Kräfte, die unser Leben in den kommenden Jahrzehnten am meisten verändern werden, und zeichnet so ein beeindruckend detailliertes Bild der Welt von morgen. Durch diese wegweisende Analyse bewirkt er ein Umdenken, denn nur wem es gelingt, die Chancen und Risiken der Zukunft zu erkennen, kann sie auch gestalten.