Albert Gore has received the Nobel Peace Prize for climatic horror stories and struggle against oil corporations. On October, 12th former vice-president of the USA Albert Gore became the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Annually by this award is awarded persons or the organizations for any acts of planetary scale which, as it is considered, facilitate life of people. More often it is received by politicians (41 winner), diplomats (9 winners), religious leaders (7 winners) and human rights activists (seven winners). Gore, the former politician, in this cohort is not entered in any way. He has received the award not for resolution of military or political conflicts, not for the introduction of certain democratic principles, etc. For the first time in history the Nobel Peace Prize has been earned for struggle against global warming or, as they say in the resume of the Nobel committee - “His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”
In 1999, after losing presidential elections in the USA by George Bush Junior, Gore has decided to fight against the transnational petroleum corporations, which, in his opinion, do everything in order to draw nearer an ecological apocalypse on the planet. For this purpose he has created the impressive slide- show “An Inconvenient Truth”, with which he has already travelled half of planet. In last year on its basis have been completed the book and documentary film with Gore in the main role. The film assembled $24 millions and has received “Oscar” and the book - several prestigious literary rewards. Considering the Nobel Prize, Albert Gore for the same idea was honored in three different areas.
What is written in the book “An Inconvenient Truth”? There are some most interesting facts.
In days of Jesus Christ on the planet lived approximately 250 million people. By the end of the World War II – 2.5 billion people, now – 6.5 billion people. All of them should eat, satisfy thirst, to build and warm its dwellings. For this purpose people always used natural resources. While the population of a planet was a small, the nature easily compensated the losses. But in the last 200 years the previous model of relations “person - nature” no longer works.
And we started:
To actively use not renewable sources of energy - coal, oil, gas;
To burn forests, clearing place for new fields and settlements;
To build the huge cattle-breeding farms, where a large quantity of manure is produced daily;
And to arrange gigantic garbage dumps, to build the factories for combusting the rubbish.
All this led to the fact that in the atmosphere increased the maintenance of greenhouse gases - carbonate, methane and nitrogen oxide. And the thicker greenhouse layer in the atmosphere more absorbs the solar heat, which the earth reflects into space. As a result the temperature of air, and water, on our planet increases.
As result glaciers in mountains, which are the basic sources of potable water disappears, and the level of World Ocean grows because of the melting of ices of Antarctica and Greenland. And through half a century approximately 40% of humankind will die from the thirst, and the sea level will rise on 6 meters, and the majority of islands and countries on coast will depart under the water.
By calculations of ecologists, the greatest contribution to the production of greenhouse gases brings the USA - 30 percent of all emissions in an atmosphere .But President Georges Bush pretends, that nothing happens, as he became the president just owing to the large industrial, oil and coal companies. By the way, the USA has not signed the Kyoto protocol about the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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