Dear Mr. Gore, The Fastest Way to Achieve World-Wide Unity on Global Warming

Dear Mr. Gore,

I know you have considered this option, so either you must have drawn a completely different conclusion than I have or you have found a better way and you simply are not telling anyone yet. The goal of course: to save planet Earth. We are headed down a dire path. We need immediate change to prevent the deaths of million and a destabilization of the world's governments and economies. What can we do? What can anyone do? You've outlined the answers in your documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." And many have heard and answered that call. Even so, many choose not too, not because they don't understand the implications, but rather because of their nature. The American Economy has created the culture we live in. It is the reason we import over 90% of our manufactured items. Because it's cheap. Because it's easy. It has raised generations of the most wasteful, consuming human beings on the planet. We need radical change in this country. And we need it now.

Unfortunately, too many politicians are fearful of the words radical and change, let alone when they are put together. And I fear that the leading Presidential candidates in the Democratic party have shown that they are fearful of these words. They are taking moderate stances even when the majority of Americans are calling out for Radical Change. Americans want to stop importing. Americans want to stop burning oil. Americans want to radically change their country and restore it to the Great Nation we once were that did incredible things like create the Peace Corp, putting humans on the Moon and bringing about the Information Age. Unfortunately, in the last 8 years, America has been radically changed in a terrible way. We've been drug by power hungry, wasteful and greedy warmongers into a dark age of secrecy, unquestioned power and shock-and-awe devastation of innocent lives. The sick have been left to die. The poor have been left to starve. And the world governments have turned their backs on this dark, secret America as the planet heats up, the glaciers dissolve and the hurricanes roar to unseen levels.

Bush is one person who single-handedly radically changed America, for the complete and utter worse. We need radical change in the other direction. And it isn't going to come from the leading Democratic candidates. I believe there are Democratic candidates who would be capable of bringing about the needed radical change, but so far, their campaigns aren't doing so well. I don't believe the current poll results, but many, many people do rely upon them. And as a Democrat, I do not like what they say. They say little change, more of the same. We need to restart the machine and install a completely different OS on it. If we do not, I fear we are going to be stuck with all the badness of the current system. And the world will continue to heat up as we continue to consume unbounded and continue to depend upon oil.

You say you are engaged in a campaign against Global Climate Change... on a mission to save the world. I say, the fastest way to accomplish that mission is for you to become a candidate. You will, in a heartbeat, become the leading candidate even though you are the very Symbol for Radical Change. You will become the next President of the United States. You will lead America back into a renaissance period, where our mission will be to accomplish a green energy system and a green economy. We will lead the world back from the brink and share the technologies we develop so that the World might continue to allow us to reside here. I do not see this as a whimsical fantasy. It is a dream, certainly, a vision. And a unified vision is what America, what the World needs. This is what you and you alone can accomplish. It's up to you, Mr. Gore. Do you want to save the World?

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Great letter. I hope he heeds the call.

Thanks Berni!

He is the person for all seasons and the platform from which he can transform American politics is the campaign.

The platform from which he can bring America to the world as a collaborative partner, instead of our current status as a renegade criminal empire, is the Presidency.

Excellent letter Berni.

Thank you,
Bob

thoroughly dissed as not appreciating the 'greater good' Gore was doing/did by sticking to Global Warming as a private citizen/winning the Nobel Prize. Congrats Berni, for stating what I attempted to, successfully.

And on what do you base these guarantees? Sentimentalism is not going to do it. And Bush wouldn't have been able to do a damn thing to radically change anything if people in this country weren't so comfortable and distracted thinking that they don't have to do anything because a savior is coming on their white charger to make it all go away so they can continue to be distracted and comfortable. Again, sentimentalism is not going to do this, and neither is just one election. And in answer to your last question, he is already working on that. The question should be do we really want to?

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please...quit it! PLEASE!

Who's with me? ;P

O.K., perhaps the #2 priority, after attacking Iran.

Wait....#3, after health care.

Oooops, perhaps I meant #4 Priority, after figuring out how to keep us in Iraq a few more years.

Like I said, I'm Certain that global warming issues will be one of her Top 10 priorities, when She takes over the Monarchy.

He is making a great contribution in doing his current work but could accomplish so much more for this planet as president.

Bravo!!!!!!!!

At this point, I doubt he'll do it, but this terrific letter could be just the thing to juice the demand so high he can't say no.

Send it to every freaking newspaper online - mount a campaign to sign up people from every state to each submit it to all the local papers they can.

He is the one that needs to hear it. I also sent this open letter I wrote back in May: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/berni_mccoy/161

Do it for them. Nobody else is going to do it.

Words stolen from Melissa Etheridge.

WATCH THIS:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Nnph3zkHNw

I disagree; as an American living outside of America - i would hope Gore doesn't waste his time and the time of the 95% of the global population who are not Aemricans... by running and becoming US president, in effect becoming baby-sitter in chief. Furthermore, if you truly believe al gore can make a difference in the climate change debate you would stop trying to coax him into the role of candidate... Much of the problem of climate change will be reduced after the US dollar has collapsed and much of the US consumer base goes offline; we should do whatever we can to encourage this US dollar collapse; divesting out of dollars for example; as probably the most expedient way to slow down climate change... but please, leave Al alone.

Last I looked, he was a grown man and all of this may very well be making his wings of positive change even stronger. The soulfire of a huge fan club is only empowering. And by the way- he hasn't told DraftGore.com to go home yet, so one has to believe he is seriously considering it, but by no means are we bothering him. He does what he wants. We are not in the way of anything else-get real!

You've put Gore on a pedestal so high that, it seems to me, you've lost sight of the man.
This problem is so gi-normous that no one human being can solve it. It took billions of us to cause it, it'll take billions to fix it.

What would happen if he made a mistake? Well, we know what would happen in the MSM, not to mention on hate radio. But what would happen to the people who call him Saviour?

I understand why you look to a man of Gore's stature and reputation for leadership. But he's just one man. And the real solutions lie in the rest of us.

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But this is an interesting trait of yours. You also put all the responsibility for the current situation on one person.



Neither is true. Granted, you do acknowledge that we're all responsible insofar as we've allowed it to happen.
But my complaint with your worldview is that you've described humanity as sheep no matter who is leading.

I guess I shouldn't argue. The evidence points overwhelmingly to you being right on that one. But going forward -- going forward -- wouldn't you like to paint us as adult human beings?

Mr. Gore is on his own mission to save the planet. I'm simply asking him if he feels that not being President isn't the best way to accomplish that mission.

And yes, ONE PERSON CAN change the world. It has been done in the past by great and evil men alike.

Gore listens to you. Gore becomes president. Gore makes suggestions/passes laws on how Americans can stop global warming. Americans get upset that the president wants them to drastically change their wasteful lifestyles. They vote him out after the first term.

Remember: Turn down your heat, wear a sweater = FUCKING UN-AMERICAN BASTARD.

and I knew even back then (I was in 2nd grade) that he was right.

Why the fuck is it taking so long for the rest of Amerikans to wake up??! (present company excepted, of course.)

Think about it: your asking people to do something that they don't want to do stave of a disaster WAYYYY in the future (and by future, I mean five years...).

Ask somebody to give up their SUV. Ask someone to give up their car. Ask someone to give up their air conditioning. Ask someone to give up their gas powered lawnmowers, their comfortably warm homes, and their dishwashers.

They'll beat you down, while exclaiming "We need to do something about global warming"

*Sigh*

I was not yet old enough to be indoctrinated with the materialistic "me, me, me" meme. :shrug:

I actually had to wear a sweater or freeze.

Now I pretty much live like a monk (though my life has gotten more elaborate since my gf moved in....).

we were already bundling up to save fuel too. ;)

No, really, you don't. You just make it profitable to not pollute. Pow, solution fixed.

Smog was largely reduced with the requirement of the catalytic converter.

Ozone depeltion was largely reduced (though it does wax and wane) with the banning of CFCs.

Neither of those impacted the markets or the economies or the lifestyles of the people at those times.

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:D

I think this is the best letter to Gore I've seen! Well done!

"Do you want to save the World?"

No no, he doesn't just "say" it, he is. And if you have to ask him if he wants to save the world, then you obviously haven't been paying attention. Whether he runs or not, he has done much to save the world and should be given the respect that deserves.

Isn't this at least the second time this was posted?