Al Gore Interview In New 40th Anniversary Issue Of Rolling Stone

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Al Gore Rolling Stone Interview: A Global Leader With a Vision of the Future

by cosmicdavej
Sat Nov 03, 2007 at 11:50:18 PM PDT
The November 15, 2007 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone Magazine (pg 54) contains an interview of Al Gore on serious questions of where we are going as a country and a planet. The interview took place at Gore's Nashville home two days after the October 12 Nobel Peace Prize announcement. While he seems to be more clear than before that he is not running, his answers leave a glimmer of hope for 2008... I think the chances are low, and I may be going crazy, but I still think something does not quite add up. This diary is long, and for that I apologize.

Gore begins stating the climate crisis is:


Many Gore hopefuls have asked that since the climate crisis is so urgent and crucial for us to act immediately, then how can Al not run? Well, Gore does understand what is at stake, and argues passionately,


The problem is critical. The data is getting worse. In fact, it is worse than the upper-band predictions that scientists have made. Oh my god, says Al. Does Gore trust that Hillary or Giuliani will act boldly and urgently?

But does Al worry that it may be too late?

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Rolling Stone asks how we engineer the sweeping social and political and industrial change that we need in a short period of time, from top to bottom? In other words, within the next 5-10 years, how do we radically transform our society to solve this crisis? Gore's answer:


To be able to succeed in transforming our society to solve the crisis, we first need a change in human consciousness. The interviewer follows asking How do we get to this shift in consciousness, and Gore describes the change in consciousness as a Kuhnian paradigm shift, and says that we are "right now" on the cusp of it...

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2000?

has the ability to rally and to motivate the American people to combat global climate change like Al Gore can....and his candidacy fades each passing day. :cry:

Paradigm shift is the only way to resolve the myriad problems the Bush administration has brought upon us.

We've seen that paradigm shift in the opinion of the American public, can we get our own Dem leaders to follow along?

live it!..
"Einstein once said, 'the problems that face us cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them. What we need is a shift in consciousness."

Everyone knows I love Al Gore but I love Rolling STone, too. My grandson just sent me some magazine order forms to help his school in Portland, Oregon and I thought.."I don't want any magazines.. I gotta save money that's why I read them from the library" but then I thought I need to show support so retrieved it, crumpled, outta the trash and scoured the choices again..and I saw "Rolling Stone"! Only $15 for $26.00 issues for the best political commentary since The Nation!

Mass Conscienciounes Guys..that's what's gonna change our Planet and rise above the bushits of the World!

As far as Gore running for Prez in 2008 I think he's not running unless there is another Paradigm shift that is not seen at this moment in time. Gore, undoubtedly, feels he can do more for our Planet in his more free capacity. I hope that whomever gets in the prez seat this time will friggin be aware of Global Climate Changes and not let the corporate Polluters run Rampant as the bushits are with their Orwellian "Clear Sky Initiatives".

I loved the Gore interview the most but I also cried when I read Jane Goodall's. So many good people who know how dire things are but spread hope. Bono gave a great interview as well. I loved how he said he went to Wolfowitz and Rummy and told them Americans in Iraq would be as hated at the Brit soldiers in Ireland eventually came to be. Of course, they didn't listen.

I think Al knows TPTB would never let him take the office of POTUS. He won it once fair and square and they just went all out to stop him from taking what was rightfully his and they'd do it again. I'll never forgive the Dems who told him to step aside. :grr:

He's doing so much good out in the private sector without the neocon B.S. getting in the way of his efforts.

I love it that Bono has so much confidence he'd talk to wolfowitz and rummy about the Iraqis eventually hating the Americans..like they care.

I feel the same about TPTB ..they'd be scared shitless of Al Gore if they weren't so full of it.

The way Al Gore will get in is though a Mass Shift from The People and tptb Imploding on their own Heinous Petard.

In my view..the dinos who told him to step aside are chickenshit dems(freakin' self-helpers) and are still infecting our Party with their bushit enabling.

"He's doing so much good out in the private sector without the neocon B.S. getting in the way of his efforts." I hear this..LOUD AND CLEAR!"

He sounds like he is trying to convince himself that he doesn't really want to run at all and that if he must, he can successfully run in 2012. Which I think is wishful thinking at best. Odds are great that a dem will win the presidency and dems will sweep both houses of congress. If he thinks he'll be able to mount a primary challenge to an incumbent, he is....not based in reality.

I don't think he is being coy. After reading the article he genuinely sounds like he is not ready to run. He says the time, cusp if you will, is RIGHT NOW, but he can wait cause he's only 59. The time is RIGHT NOW, but none of the other candidates have made global warming the central issue as they must. He's waiting for a change in consciousness, but he fails to mention that such changes usually only come about with prima facia cataclysmic disaster. Right now we are distracted by the potential of the middle east turning into WWIII and it's resultant effect of turing the USA into the fourth Reich.

I would argue there is going to be no change in global consciousness until we can calm the middle east down, or at least withdraw our combat forces and let it simmer as a regional, rather than a world conflict. As an analogy, if you have a life threatening cancer, and someone walks up to you and shoves a gun in your face and says "your money or your life", what are your new priorities?

Right now global warming is the planets cancer, and shrub has a nine millimeter stuffed half way down our throats, without a hint of rationality in his eyes.

Al the time is now or never. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.

I love Al Gore. The future could be 2008.