Al Gore and the We Can Solve it challenge, now with a soundtrack
Everything sounds more urgent and better when it's set to music, especially For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield. No exception here for this remix of Al Gore's speech to the DAR, the one where he challenges the country to produce 100% of our energy from clean and renewable sources within 10 years.
We Can Solve It, the organization that is promoting the video, will also be running an ad in the Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal, linking gas prices, the soft economy and the climate crisis. They want to remind people that "short term solutions to our long-term energy problems aren't just ineffective, they will actually make the problem much worse. "
Which, you know: true.
I'm sure the Al Haters will be all over Al's carbon footprint in the comments, which is fine (bring it, haters, and btw, nice people are allowed to comment, too) and not really the point.
Their opinion doesn't change the fact that we're lucky to have leaders like Al Gore who are brave enough to issue a challenge of this magnitude, have enough respect for our ability to achieve this type of technological feat, and are inspiring enough to galvanize so many of us to make profound changes in our lives.
As Abraham Lincoln (another leader who had some crazy ideas about breaking our country of deeply embedded negative practices) said, "Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought." If ever there was a case of "ought," switching to clean fuel is it.
I bet we can get this done before the 10 year finish-line deadline. Go U.S.A.!
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