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    Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
    Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
    Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
    Audiobook10 hours

    Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

    Written by Al Gore

    Narrated by John Slattery and Linda Emond

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    About this audiobook

    Our Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore’s forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently. Our Choice will be an inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions that really work--including some bold initiatives that were deemed impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining support around the world.

     

    Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and the release of the Academy Award-winning film of the same title, Mr. Gore has led more than thirty “Solutions Summits” with top scientists, engineers, and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail. Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary to save the earth’s climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 3, 2009
    ISBN9780743572057
    Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
    Author

    Al Gore

    Al Gore was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976 and the US Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on 20 January 1993 and served eight years. He is chairman of Generation Investment Management, a London-based firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing. He also serves as chairman of Current, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc., a senior advisor to Google, Inc., and a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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    • 4/5
      This is essentially a coffee-table book -- lots of nice pictures, words, and graphs. It does not appear to be intended to be read straight through, and I didn't, but I think you could. (I mean, I've seen the movie, I actually read "Earth in the Balance," what more does he have to add?) I read the parts that were interesting, about 1/2, which was more than I initially thought it would be. It's a faster read than you think because there are so many pictures. You start on a section to delve into the subject and before you know it, boom, you're finished. So, it's pretty well written.I learned about soil carbon -- I knew there was lots down there, but it's nice to know that someone has looked into the question of "how much." It is a good general reference on global warming and technical ways to address it. He trashes corn ethanol (thanks!), and even notes the contribution of livestock to global warming (thanks!). So Al Gore is actually paying attention, he's not just regurgitating his past comments. What is not here is any substantial discussion of ecological economics or political tactics. He does mention cap and trade and a CO2 tax (which he favors). Also not discussed is any runaway greenhouse effect; peak oil is briefly mentioned. These are things which James Hansen (see "Storms of my Grandchildren") is interested in.
    • 5/5
      It's weird: this is a book where the writing is merely ok, but it threads a very difficult rhetorical needle with aplomb. Gore basically lays out the many facets of the problem: what sources are contributing to the issues, what proposed solutions that do or don't look promising, and then surprisingly delves into the deeper questions of why this crisis even became a crisis at all. It's easily the best one-stop book on global warming, and is remarkably insightful. Even though I knew pretty much all the information he lists, Gore manages to knit it together into a very convincing whole.

      Really recommended, especially if you can read it through the fun iPad edition like I did.