Al Gore on Environment
Gore is as concerned as Postrel with alleviating misery and the natural burdens of life, and his concern is reasoned and long-range. Gore not only cares deeply about people today but about tomorrow’s people. Postrel mistakes Gore for the Earth Firsters with whom he disagrees--those whom he accuses of “advocating a kind of war on the human race as a means of protecting the planet.”
Al Gore’s “Earth in the Balance” is more than just a wake-up call. It is a compilation of facts that, as Gore says, “indicate to me that the global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, as real as rain, and that the idea of leaving my children with a degraded Earth and a diminished future is unbearable.”
HAROLD WATERHOUSE
Pacific Palisades
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