"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

[Airmid]

Or take a wander through the undergrowth of the many, many scientifically backed sites that confirm that climate chaos is taking place.... and they take a look at why you feel the need to stay in denial. A good therapist might help.

Or look here

http://climatedenial.org/2006/08/22/do-scientists-really-believe-in-climate-change/

[The Patriot]

OOH - i hope its renamed "A Bogus Lie"...

“The Earth itself is more important than the people on it.”

That statement seems to sum up the new “Earth First” religion. It is not a new thought. Any slave-owning land master from our past could have told it to you - a Roman, a Greek, an American or Russian oligarch of landed status.

At present, the “Earth First” concept is being elevated to the status of a Religion. Partisan “scientists” cook (and sometimes get caught falsifying) climate data to support the tenant of the new religion.

The undeniable, scientifically provable fact is that the only constant in the climate of the Earth is CHANGE.

So, why the sudden elevation of the Earth Religion to world prominence? Simple - it’s all about the taxes.

What taxes, you might ask? Carbon Credits, my friend, Carbon Credits.

Don’t believe me? Check out: http://www.carbonfund.org

So, where does that money go??? Check this out: JP Morgan Chase!

The New Religion Sucks - http://www.thepatriotaxe.com/blog/?p=164

[CitizenJ]

Cite some actual facts, not demagoguery. Post a link to a scientific study saying global warming is about taxes.

[Boneszy]

I am with ya

[HonorJusticeTruth]

If you studied all religion, you might realize that in almost all early civilizations, the earth mother was the primary diety, and the earth itself, provider of all sustanance, was considered sacred. This was before male hunter groups became dominant and all of these testostorone laden gods appeared.

But thank you for your wondersome words, because I wonder some as to how you came to these conclusions.

[OneVoiceOfReason]

You said "The Earth itself is more important than the people on it."

What you fail to understand is that the planet will be just fine. It's not in danger of dying or going extinct. The people who are aware of the truths behind global warming are trying to save the people, not the planet. Global warming won't damage the planet at all, it'll survive just fine at a higher temperature...but, left unchecked, it could very well spell extinction for plants and animals if something isn't done soon to stop runaway greenhouse gas buildup. If you're looking for a new religion, check out the one where we survive.

[melmoid]

Correct--the planet will survive in some form or another at least until the sun becomes a red giant or we get a huge asteroid impact. But there could be mass extinctions resulting in a much more barren ecosystem than we have now. Homo sapiens may not survive either like over 20 of the early hominid species not to mention over 90% of all other species going extinct sooner or later. What is a shame here is that Homo sapiens had the potential to build a sustainable ecology--a garden of Eden--that could last a very long time.

[angrydove]

We have to care about the earth because it is our home.