"Our Choice": Al Gore's New Book Follows On "Inconvenient Truth"

Former Vice President and climate crisis crusader Al Gore will release a new book in March called Our Choice, which will lay out a "blueprint" for solving the climate crisis, according to a press release from the book's publisher.

"Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. Our Choice will answer that call," the release says.

Our Choice is a follow up to Gore's last book, An Inconvenient Truth.

Read the full release below:

EMMAUS, PA, and NEW YORK, NY, March 24, 2009--Today Vice President Gore announced that his next book, Our Choice, will be published by Rodale in the US and by other publishers internationally on November 3, 2009. Picking up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, Our Choice utilizes Mr. Gore's forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur and activist to comprehensively describe the real solutions to global warming. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore continues to make sense of the pressing issues we face and Our Choice will unquestionably inspire and rally those ready to fight for solutions that were deemed impossible only a short time ago.

Said Vice President Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth reached millions of people with the message that the climate crisis is threatening the future of human civilization and that it must and can be solved.  Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. Our Choice will answer that call."

Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and the release of the Academy Award® winning film of the same title, Mr. Gore has led more than thirty "Solutions Summits" with top scientists, engineers and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail.  Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary to save the earth's climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress.

As they did with An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore will donate 100% of the proceeds of the book to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit, non-partisan group dedicated to spreading awareness about the climate crisis and how to solve it. Our Choice will feature 100% recycled paper, locally produced and sourced editions, low VOC inks, and will be carbon neutral.

"Rodale is honored to continue our relationship with Vice President Al Gore," said Rodale Inc. President and CEO Steven Pleshette Murphy. "We were proud to publish An Inconvenient Truth and very much look forward to bringing Our Choice to the growing audience of committed citizens who are seeking solutions to the climate change crisis. In the spirit of our longtime mission, we are dedicated to creating the greatest possible platform for Vice President Gore's work and message."

Comments

[power1]

By the way, I am educated and I don't respect Al Gore. I think he's a liar.

[Pharos]

But you are not educated enough to understand science.

[Clevella]

power1, if you are so educated, then read this, and educated yourself further:

http://www.whrc.org/resources/online_publications/warming_earth/scientific_evidence.htm

http://www.whrc.org/resources/online_publications/warming_earth/skeptics.htm

Here is the data at the heart of the debate, without Limbaugh's (or Gores') interpretation.

Stop being a one person cheering squad for all things 'not Gore'. We have enough trolls in the world. You are not changing anyone's mind here with your incessant 'one liner' remarks. If you have something substantive to say, then say it. Otherwise, leave the juvenile insult mongering to other children, and let the adults here have a grown up conversation.

Step up, or step off.

[power1]

The book should be placed in the Business section of bookstores since the global warming scam is a real money maker.

[melmoid]

If you think global warming is a scam, I suggest you go park your but* on a glacier somewhere without a life vest or boat and you will soon enough get a swimming lesson. But on the other hand it is probably unrealistic to expect ordinary people to understand global warming or evolution.

[guruglenn]

Al Gore has gained respect from the majority of educated people through his awareness campaign. His new book will just wake more people up to the reality of our times on this planet.

Glenn Smith Author of Lotus Petal, A Parable to Help You to Overcome The Fear of Death
http://lotuspetalbook.com

[gsteinum]

i'd be more than happy to buy the book, when it comes out; but wouldn't downloading an ebook of it be more ecofriendly?

[fumes]

an ebook would be consistent with the message..

[howcome]

but not with Al's me$$age

[mlaiuppa]

Killing the messenger won't change the message.

Climate change is here, it's real and we better start changing our ways drastically or our great grandchildren won't have to worry about paying off Bush's War. They won't be here.

[slithers]

Book sellers are having difficulty deciding if it should be in the religious section or the fiction section of their stores.

[howcome]

Real book sellers aren't , and the shelf space next to the newest Stephen King tome is open

[power1]

Al Gore is not going to save the planet. Maybe his savings account, but not the planet.

[Clevella]

Since you seem to know so much about Al Gores finances, maybe you's like to enlighten me as to where you are getting all of this data.
I mean besides Rush Limbaughs crack.....

[Beachrunner]

Check out Al's family tree. His father made millions off Occidental Petroleum, and guess who inherited the stock?

Good 'ol Al.

[NevinBearley]

I LOVE Al Gore, I think that he is a role model for the entire nation, he is single handidly trying to save the planet that we all call home and yet some mush brained wacked out uneducated people, not to name any names Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are demonizing him, but this is most likely due to the fact that they only have the mentality of an 8 year old. So America listen up to what Mr. Gore has to say and we may just be able to save the world and have it around for our grandchildren!

[tjfdownsouth]

I hope he becomes king or the world, he is the greatest!!!

[power1]

I don't like him because he is a phony hypocrite who runs a fear campaign that borders on brainwashing.

[Clevella]

You've just nailed the GOP, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter perfectly!!

[StopGlobalWarmingBeVegan]

Meat is the #1 cause of global warming, Al Gore needs to go vegan.

[Clevella]

Or start eating some of the Neo-Con-trolls lurking here....

[JimR]

Global climate change is a real problem that needs to be addressed, but....

OK, I'll say it. I don't think Al Gore is the best person to be spreading the message. I don't doubt his passion for the issues, but he doesn't walk the walk and draws too much negative attention to the cause.

[Clevella]

The only 'negative attention' is coming from the right wing fear merchants. Lie, repeat. Lie, repeat. Lie, repeat.

[baseballmom]

I am amazed at all these comments dumping on Al Gore. Why do people dislike him so much? After serving honorably in the military during wartime, he spent several years in public service. He's been a decent family man all these years and is still married to his college sweetheart. He is interested in the environment because he believes that God has commanded us to be good stewards of the earth and its resources. Now he's in business and yes, he's making money from new technologies (nothing wrong with capitalism, is there?)

I just don't get it. He displays all the values that conservatives / the religious right say are important. What is it about him that draws so much ire? Is it because he is smart and actually understands science?

[JimR]

Gore doesn't walk the walk. He wants OTHER people to make changes in the way they use energy that he won't make himself. That's part of it.

[Clevella]

Is that opinion based on what Gore says or Glenn beck?

[Beachrunner]

"Former Vice President and climate crisis crusader Al Gore will release a new book in March called 'Thanks Suckers!' which will lay out how he got rich with the so-called climate crisis, according to a press release from the book's publisher.­"

"Al's going to lay it all out, how he engineered the giant hoax, and how he became fithly rich off the 'carbon trading' ponzi scheme . . . how he laughs every time he fires up his 100-foot luxury yacht, and how he uses more energy in a day than a family of four uses in ten lifetimes," said Bambi Starr, his spokesperson.

[power1]

Thanks Da Centrist, I feel much better now.

[marlovian]

And one day we shall all dwell in large mansions upon this little stone spinning through space.