Next for Al Gore... By the end of the week, Al Gore will have finished training the last of a thousand "Climate Project" volunteers, who will be charged with spreading the word about the bleaker aspects of 70-degree January days. According to Gore's office, the former vice president has been busy indoctrinating said volunteers for more than ten hours a day, and will now, at last, be free to do... other things.
No, says his office, not that -- despite the latest speculation.
On Thursday, Gore plans to fly to Tokyo to stroll down the red carpet for the opening of An Inconvenient Truth. After that he is off to Scotland, Denmark and England to do more movie promotion. (London, it turns out, will also be the headquarters for the European branch of Gore's growing volunteer network.)
And then, without so much as a breather, Gore will begin promoting his next book, "The Assault on Reason," which is scheduled to hit stores in May.
Sounds like he's campaigning for something, anyway.
--Jason Horowitz
UPDATE: From Gore's spokesperson Kalee Kreider, the following:
"The vice president has been clear that his campaign is really about the issue of global warming and we are currently evaluating whether or not to continue the training program after the UK, but he currently has no intention of running for office in 2008."
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Based on what I have been reading, people in the media, pundits, and political operatives seem to be spending more time on speculating than acting, and I personally think it is an insult to continue to treat Al Gore as if he is a liar regarding his endless statements regarding running for president. He is now a private citizen who shouldn't have to feel obligated to give Shermanesque statements anymore, and to expect that of him and not of others is in my view ridiculous. That being stated, I am going to comment about this program which is more important.
I firmly believe he needs to take this program to Africa. Africa is the hardest hit continent regarding the affects of this climate crisis, and the people there need and are thirsting for education and the tools necessary to understand what climate change is and how they can deal with it based on their own economic situation. Africa emits one of the lowest rates of GG emissions, yet they are the ones suffering the most from our irresponsible behavior. I believe it is only fitting that we then work to provide them with what they need to deal with the affects that I believe will only be exacerbated in the coming years.
For me, it is great to see Mr. Gore fulfilled and doing with his life that which he has wanted to do with it for so very long. The world needs him now the way he is, doing this, and being the spark to hopefully ignite a global effort to address this grave crisis. In a recent interview I read, he equated what he is now doing to walking on a beach and finding a bottle with a note in it speaking of grave danger to someone that had to be delivered. Any one of us I would hope would take that bottle to deliver the message and not throw it back in the water because our day at the beach was more important.
The message in our bottle is that the world is being made uninhabitable by US. It is then we who need not only to undertstand this message but to heed it for own survival. Again, I cannot think of a more important role for any man to undertake, and I cannot think of any man more up to that task than Al Gore who can now do this HIS WAY unbeholding to anyone, with the moral clarity necessary to bring this message to the world before it is truly too late if it isn't already.
Thank you, Mr. Gore.
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