Sunday, October 14, 2007

PLN #10

The article I choose to read about was called "Gore wins Nobel Piece Prize" and as you may have guessed former Vice President Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in raising awarness on global warming. After winning Gore said he was "deeply hounered" and believes that global warming is not a political problem but a spiritual one. The nobel committee praised Gore as being one of the worlds most political environmentalists. Other president recipients include: Jimmy Carter in 2002, Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. Gore who served as vice president for eight years under Bill Clinton then lost in the 2000 election to current president George Bush. In recent weeks Gore has launched a campaigned to enter the 2008 presidential election. What I think matters in this article is not the fact that Gore won the Peace Prize for global warming but global warming in general. I think a lot of people over look global warming and instead of preparing for it we kind of just shrug it off and hope it never gets to be really bad. I'm not saying that we don't notice it at all but there s ton more that we could be doing about it.

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