Al Gore’s Nobel Prize and the Discovery of the New World …
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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Well that ought to set the GDS folks off!!! Seriously though, the fact that the international community isn’t burdened with partisan-centric views of matters scientific (the way we seem to be) is refreshing, even though it’s also a sad commentary on our willingness to abandon objectivity.
Earth First!
We’ll log the other planets later.
Well that ought to set the GDS folks off!!!
Chuckles or snickers are the normal reaction. As to “GDS,” it’s almost non-existent, while “BDS” is not only endemic, but often fulminant.
Big words, there DLS. Fulminant, eh? Dunno.
Don’t feel very deranged about Bush. It’s like watching some 18-year-old meth-headed girl with 2 kids and one more on the way relapse after 3 months clean. It just makes you wanna put your head through a wall then pay her to get a D&C and IUD… I guess that could be considered deranged… But still very much in contact with reality.
Gore Gore Gore. Read the Daily Howler if you want to understand GDS. Even big New York Times “liberals” like Frank Rich suffered from it. That’s the “Mainstream” press, not just the “Right-Wing” press. It’s all right-wing now, folks. If it don’t seem it you need to broaden your view, think in your own term, not mediated terms.
The article itself seemed kinda… dumb. Deranged, even, in that a man (Gore) who so much of this country’s elite worked so hard to keep out of power getting an award (shiny!) signals the dawning of a new age. Uh, what? Isn’t Gore just making noise? Aren’t the same interests that keep the Presidency conservative and the national discourse retarded still in power? Last time I checked, popular opinion in this country was easily moulded and the people impotent to sway their government. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited that folks are waking up to the importance of climate change. Just… calling it the dawn of a new age?
And relating it back to Columbus? What?! It is to LOL.
Maybe what I should have said is that it’s refreshing to see people who are capable of even using phrases like “renewal of faith” without succumbing to fits of sarcasm. Whether you like Gore or not, anyone who is working in the cause of a better future for later generations is worthy of some praise. I say that knowing full well just how low a priority taking the long view is in this country.
” Whether you like Gore or not, anyone who is working in the cause of a better future for later generations is worthy of some praise. I say that knowing full well just how low a priority taking the long view is in this country.”
Well that would involve taking the high road, now wouldn’t it? I can’t say that I’ve read any conservative columnist who’s come to that conclusion. Most denigrate Gore, the award, the committee for choosing him- and the cause.
They point to the fact that Arafat won the Nobel, to show that its not worth winning, and note that in England a judge decided that 9 of Gore’s assertions in “An Inconvenient Truth” were unproven. One pundit even pointed out that Gore wanted to use fame from the prize to revive his political career at some point in the future, but wanted someone else to clean up the Iraq mess first. He definitely had terminal GDS.
I would take the conservative critics more seriously is they offered better alternatives.
They denigrate the Nobel prize, because they don’t like the recipients.
They denigrate the UN because they don’t like aspects of it.
They denigrate eveything and eceryone that isn;t them.
And what do they offer? A view that the US should rule the world, even while destroying US credibility in that world and thus destroying its ability to influence, much less rule.
Don;t you think the world is taking note of how Gore and the Nobel prize are being attacked at home? They are destoying the US place in the world to satisfy their narrow interests.
It’s short sigthed, mean spirited and self destructive.