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Dear Mr. Gore;
I have been writing to you off and on concerning issues for over four years now. Much has happened to our country and our world in that time, and to me it has been surreal. I keep thinking I will wake up and see that it has all been a dream… but unfortunately, I know it hasn’t been. I write to you again as we watch another year close to once again thank you for all of your work for our planet and our children and to be honest with you about a couple of things that I am concerned about.
Current reports about complete ice melt in the Arctic within thirty years worry me very much. Glaciers are melting at a much faster rate all over the world than first reported, which is a very telling sign. My feeling on this is if scientists now predict this ice will be gone in thirty years, it more than likely will be sooner considering that the drastic steps needed to be put in place to slow down the amount of CO2 we are spewing into the atmosphere are not coming to pass quickly enough to mitigate what we keep putting up there daily while we continue talking about it.
We not only need Federal legislation now Mr. Gore, we need to see another choice at our pumps soon. However, I think the only way that is going to happen is if so much pressure is brought to bear by progress being made state by state, that those who have not truly fulfilled their oaths on the Federal level will have no other choice but to do so. That is if legislation can get past Bush’s veto, because in all honesty Mr. Gore, Bush is a lost cause.
And what does that do to the ten year window scientists say we have especially in relation to waiting for this government to get in motion on this? And even should we get legislation say next year that escapes a Bush veto, how do we get rid of what is already in our atmosphere already helping to put this into motion? How do we truly create the urgency in the general public necessary to change attitudes and moral codes to begin this great task?
That is why I believe in a national grassroots movement as the one you began with the Climate Project, and I am a bit disappointed that I was not selected to go as one of the trainees. However, I am still talking to people out here on my own, and am going to try to learn Keynote and put a slideshow together on the global water crisis if I can. But time is of the essence to me, and I really am beginning to think that we are running out of it and don’t want it to get so mired down in political backbiting that it doesn’t move forward.
I am also concerned by the amount of glacial earthquakes on Greenland, and believe that soon we may just get the one big one that sends part of it into the ocean and that we will not be ready for it. And as I mentioned to you in a previous letter, the global water crisis we are facing is my primary cause and concern. I recently saw a picture in my journeys of the Darling River in Australia and it was nearly dry. Lake Victoria in Kenya is now going the way of Lake Chad. Almost forty percent of our world is in some stage of drought, with weather patterns causing erratic rainfall or none at all, or flooding in areas not used to it. And both the droughts and floods are killing people due to famine and diseases. We are radically changing our relationship with our planet, and yes, while I do have some hope, I feel more frustrated by a media that is more concerned now with 2008 hype than getting this important information out to people.
And that is one reason why I am so grateful to you for being an advocate for our planet. You are now the main cog in this wheel of vision that will get this revolution rolling. That is a position so much more important now than any president of any country to me, as you seek to finally bring the people to the place our Constitution has been leading them to all of these years.
You now have the chance to be the moral inspiration for an unprecedented grassroots movement in this country that not only shapes the future of our environment, but our very future as a Democracy. Coincidentally, Dec. 16, the day you planned to discuss this crisis at a conference call with people about the movie is also the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I don't know if you realized that when the date was set, but the correlation is very clear. I didn’t sign up to have a party, but I did have a presentation in my home for my neighbors on my own, signed the card on your website, and have been handing out flyers for months now, as well as donating the movie to my university and my school board’s Science Dept. And it feels good to be a part of something regarding an issue I too have had in my heart since I was a child.
This is our chance to start that revolution we so desperately need to save not only our planet but our Democracy. And it is a peaceful revolution that seeks change through the very principles that guided the making of our nation. You are now our missive and our muse in this cause and the central figure in what could well become the most groundbreaking movement this country has ever seen, if only people would stop being distracted by media hype and speculation and start really rolling up their sleeves to become a part of it on all levels. I truly hope there is a turnaround coming, and I do see it starting in many facets of the business world from private business, to government, to architecture, which I think is an integral part of fighting greenhouse gas emissions. But the chief factor is changing the hearts and minds of people to truly see the truth of how far the effects of climate change have really gone already globally, and fighting the corporate media machine that seeks to hide this truth.
Thank you again for all you are doing to inspire change for our world Mr. Gore and start that fight, and may you and your family have a new year filled with love and peace, and hope for a sustainable future.
All my best,
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