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An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2007, Hardcover, Prebinding) 
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2007, Hardcover, Prebinding)

 
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2007, Hardcover, Prebinding)

Author: Al Gore
Publisher: Bt Bound
Publication Date: 2007-04-10
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1417771143
ISBN-13: 9781417771141
Product ID: EPID57044657
Description: In the hopes of raising public awareness and affecting public policy, former Vice-President Al Gore issues this red flag on one of the key topics with which he has long been identified: the issue of global warming. Gore synthesizes the l...
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Synopsis
In the hopes of raising public awareness and affecting public policy, former Vice-President Al Gore issues this red flag on one of the key topics with which he has long been identified: the issue of global warming. Gore synthesizes the latest scientific findings, which indicate that the problem is more acute than just a few years ago. There are clear signs that the environment is changing: more violent and destructive weather conditions, changes in seasons, and significant melting of the polar regions due to increased temperatures. Gore explains the effects of each of these on the land and sea, and ultimately on populations.

In an even-tempered tone, Mr. Gore takes a firm stand that addressing global warming is a priority, and he offers clear actions that need to be taken. He says that we do not need to sacrifice a robust economy, we just have to act prudently--but act we must on this "global emergency," as he calls it.

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Publication Date:2007-04-10

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Height:9.3 in
Width:7.5 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:24.0 oz

Industry Reviews
"Lucid, harrowing, and bluntly effective....The author's wonky fascination with policy minutiae has been tamed in these pages, and his love of charts and graphs has been put to good use...Mr. Gore's stripped-down narrative emphasizes facts over emotions, common sense over portentous predictions....Mr. Gore shows why environmental health and a healthy economy do not constitute mutually exclusive choices, and he enumerates practical steps that can be taken to reduce carbon emissions to a point below 1970s levels."
(05/23/2006)

"...Gore has put together a coherent account of a complex topic that Americans desperately need to understand....By telling the story of climate change with striking clarity...Al Gore may have done for global warming what SILENT SPRING did for pesticides."
(07/13/2006)

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      Nonfiction Hardback on Environmental Damage for Kids
    Review created: 11/16/08
    51 of 52 people found this review helpful.

    Vice President Al Gore's poignant green message is this book he wrote during the aftermath of the devastation of the Bush adminstration's policy's on the environment. Gore presents hard core scientific data in this text that accessible to children. Writing this text with that kind of accesiblity is one of the qualities of the book that makes it genuis.

    Gore calls citizens to be be concerned about rising global temperatures because the polar icecaps are melting. He calls US citizens to be appropriately angry because US Republican leaders aren't doing nearly enough to stop the industrial waste, pollution & poisoning. The current executive adminstration's policies have empowered major institutions who are responsible for causing our weather problems. Such as hurricanes.

    Gore's text details how Republican leaders have lined their pockets with our tax $$$ so that big business industrial polluters can continue to destroy the environment that all living things depend upon for survival. Gore also points out that these leaders are not simply putting our lives at risk, every living thing is suffering consequences that they are responsible for.

    Our children's lives are even more at risk. Gore's texts begs the question, aren't adults supposed to take actions to protect children? If not, who is?

    "An Inconvenient Truth" is a provocative nonfiction book upon which a full feature documentary film was based. That filmed earned 2 Oscars because the multi-media power-point presentation Gores uses is anything but boring or complicated to understand. Don't just read the text & fret about the environment. Vote now & keep voting to stop those who do nothing to stop global warming~


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