Is there any correlation between the ‘discovery’ of America by Christopher Columbus and the environmental movement boosted by and championed by Al Gore? According to this editorial from Brazil’s O Povo newspaper, the fact that Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize on the 515th anniversary of Colombus’ discovery of America shows that, ‘the message preached by people like Gore in favor of the Earth may mean a renewal of faith in the New World, so that a really new world may someday be achieved.
“For those who still idealize both the discovery of America and subsequent episodes that determined the foundation and emancipation of the 13 British colonies, the message preached by people like Gore in favor of the Earth may mean a renewal of faith in the New World, so that a really new world may someday be achieved.”
EDITORIAL
Translated By Brandi Miller
October 13, 2007
O Povo – Brazil – Originial Article (Portuguese)
Announced yesterday [Oct. 12] in Norway, the Nobel Peace Prize this year will be granted to the former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, Jr., and a U.N. agency called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[IPCC], for their shared work in alerting people about the warming of the planet.
Interestingly, the disclosure of this year’s winners, a North American and a program based in the United States [the IPCC], occurred on the 515th anniversary of the October 12th 1492 discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, an event that has been stigmatized in recent decades. For those who have discordant voices, this was a colonist act that resulted in the genocide of native peoples in what was later called America.
But for those who still idealize both the discovery of America and subsequent episodes that determined the foundation and later emancipation of the 13 British colonies that formed the United States, the message preached by people like Gore and the members of the IPCC in favor of the Earth may mean a renewal of faith in the New World, so that a really new world can be achieved.
Gore was Vice President of the country most responsible for global warming, due principally to industrial pollution. But it’s also a nation in which since the 1970s, there has been an outcry demanding that Planet Earth be treated better. This is a doctrine that Gore embraced as a champion of the environment by presenting his feature film, An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim, winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Documentary by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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