Message from Al GORE, ancien Vice-Président, auteur et orateur du documentaire "An Inconvenient Truth" (Une vérité qui dérange).

Message from Al GORE, ancien Vice-Président, auteur et orateur du documentaire réalisé par David Guggenheim, "An Inconvenient Truth" (Une vérité qui dérange).

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Paris, 3.02.2007




Monsieur le President, my friends, distinguished guests, I wish that I could be with you in person today, thank you for allowing me to participate by means of this video link. You have discussed many issues which are close to my heart-the climate crisis, biodiversity, health, and water availability-and I know that your time together has been fascinating and very sobering.

I would like to begin my remark by expressing thanks to you, President CHIRAC, for your outstanding personnal leadership on this issue of the climate crisis; you have been eloquent and forceful, and on countless occasions, behind the scenes, you have brought people together and moved this issue forward. The entire world owes you gratitude for your leadership.

I believe, very deeply, and know that many of you agree, that the earth is facing a planetarian emergency because of human-induced global warming. I know that the terms crisis and emergency sound shrill, but this week in Paris, we have been given yet another warning from the scientific community worldwide about the planetary danger we face. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has once again reaffirmed in ever stronger terms the scientific consensus that we must act, and act swiftly, if we are to stop the worst of what they expect will otherwise happen.

Isn't it clear that we are at a tipping point ? It is up to people like us, and others around the world -in government, in business, leaders in every part of society, and average citizens to take the decisions that will either continue to take us down the path that brought us so close to destruction or take us in a new direction.

The climate crisis requires true generational leadership. It requires trans-Atlantic and worlwide global moral leadership that transcends any party, or national boundary, or any private interest. It stretches our imagination to think beyond ourselves in this moment in time and to think about what we want our world to be like for our children, and our children's.

So, what must we do?

Mr. President, you and all of those assembled I humbly submit that you should call for immediate global action to address the climate crisis with a brand new sense of urgency. Global warming negatively impacts every single one of the problems your working groups were assigned to tackle. Such action requires strengthened international cooperation and the institutions to support it.

Your work here should be a beginning, not an end. The relationships and ideas that have developped here should ferment and take hold across a variety of forums, from the climate treaty talks to the ongoing United Nations dialogue on sustainable development.

Most importantly, we all must be leaders in ever facet of our lives, from the personal to the professional. Mohandas Gandhi once said, "be the change that you want to see in the world."

We all should lead by example. And then we should all act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, Let's embrace this generational mission, and unite behind this compelling moral purpose. Let us use this unprecedented opportunity to rise above any dispute and bickering to truly solve the climate crisis and gain the moral authority and vision in doing so, to solve our other problems succesfully as well.

Mr. President, thank you again for giving me the opportunity to speak today. To all of you, good luck !






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