Apr 10 2008
TED – Al Gore’s Impressive Talk…
Slightly off my normal posts, but as did the first Al Gore talk on Climate Change his recent talk at TED 2008 has moved me just as much, but also made me shall we say a little despondent.
Al Gore as ever is an eloquent and incredibly convincing speaker, that has done so much to bring the truth of climate change onto the discussion table. I remember showing the first talk over two years ago, in my school in Egypt and watching a small group of students become incredibly involved in the issues. BUT what has happened over those few years seems very little. My return to English life has led me to want to at least do simple things like recycling, all political discussion shows that this would be easy that the council collections would be wonderful. Hmm…after trying out Runnymede’s recycling collections which are both erratic, and then stop if one item that is not on their list (e.g. they only collect paper and glass bottles) then they say your box has been contaminated and stop collecting.
So to stop my impending doom, I suggest the one thing that can be done is to show Al Gore’s latest video in all of our schools. To continue the fight, and maybe there will be less rhetoric and more actual constructive action on the parts of those in positions of power.
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