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Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
[Paperback - 2009]
al gore
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Uk | ISBN: 9780747590996 | Pages: 208
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An Inconvenient Truth explained the challenges of climate change. Now, Al Gore proposes the solutions. This YA edition of Al Gore's book has been specially edited for readers of around 11 plus - the young people who will, in fact, be dealing with global warming throughout their lives. Sections aimed specifically at adults have been omitted, in favour of clear text, appropriate photographs and easily understandable graphs.

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Albert Gore, Junior, known asAl, served earlier as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1985 to 1993 and as vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 underWilliam Jefferson Clintonand shared the Nobel Prize of 2007 for peace for his efforts to raise awareness about global warming.This forty-fifth vice president also served in the House of Representatives of the United States from 1977 to 1985. Gore, the Democratic nominee for president in the election of 2000, ultimately lost to the Republican candidateGeorge Walker Bushin spite of winning the popular vote. The Supreme Court eventually settled a legal controversy over the election recount of Florida in favor of Bush.People awarded this prominent environmental activist together with theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Changefor the "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."He also starred in the Academy Award–winning documentary,An Inconvenient Truth, on the topic of global warming. Gore helped to organize the Live Earth benefit concert for global warming on 7 July 2007.Gore is currently chairman of the Emmy Award–winning American television channel Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, a director on the board of Apple Inc., an unofficial advisor to Google's senior management, chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, and a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group.

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