"I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
"My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis."
My take? In terms of leadership, was Bush really the best we could do? As a man and as a leader, he looks smaller and smaller every day --- while Gore gains in stature. The people who put Bush in the White House look more an more myopic and petty and gullible. They'd rather elect some inarticulate frat dude with whom they think it might be fun to have a beer than a man of substance, who knows what he's talking about and who cares about the continuing future of the planet. The Born-Again Bush sees the future coming to an end as soon as he can figure out how to make the Armageddon of bronze age prophecy into a reality.
It's about "likability" to those who voted for Bush ... not about intelligence. They got what they deserved ... a smirking, arrogant frat boy who's thought process is perfectly reflected in his ability to express it. Unfortunately, the rest of us ended up with him, too.
Democracy is predicated on an educated electorate. That's the blessing ... and the Achilles Heel. If Bush was the best we could do ... I'm very disappointed in us.
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