Gore: We have to solve global warming
Pastor Dale Morgan
Gore: We have to solve global warming or lose the Planet*
POSTED: 1711 GMT (0111 HKT), September 5, 2006
HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) -- Former Vice President Al Gore said on
Tuesday that reducing drastically the amount of greenhouse gas emissions
was vital for the future of the planet.
"Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into
the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the
continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of
human civilization," Gore said in a news conference in Finland's capital
Helsinki.
It is possible to reverse global warming, he said, adding that politics
can seem to change very slowly, but it can also cross a tipping point
and adapt a new pattern and change rapidly.
Gore said he was worried that adaptation to climate change could serve
as an excuse for not reducing the global warming pollution and solving
the climate crisis.
"We have to solve it (global warming) and there are some people who urge
adaptation instead of prevention, and that formulation must be rejected."
Since there is damage done already, Gore said it is only morally
responsible to have an appropriate amount of attention paid to helping
poor nations to cope with the changes already taking place.