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Vanity Fair Goes Green With Gore

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Vanityfair_2It seems we aren’t the only ones impressed by Al Gore and the clarion call he’s sounding on global warming. Gore features prominently in Vanity Fair‘s first-ever Green Issue, on newsstands this week. And his essay, “The Moment of Truth” hits the issue hard: “Today, there are dire warnings that the worst catastrophe in the history of human civilization is bearing down on us, gathering strength as it comes.” The piece echoes the sentiments he expressed at TED2006, and concludes, similarly, with a strong measure of optimism: “We can solve this crisis,” he writes. “Today, we have all the technologies we need to start the fight against global warming. We can build clean engines. We can harnass the sun and wind. We can stop wasting energy.” But more importantly, the climate crisis “presents an opportunity like no other. As we rise to meet this historic challenge, it promises us prosperity, common purpose, and the renewal of our moral authority.”