Gore takes Nobel, issues challenge
Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment.
The United States and China, the world’s leading emitters of greenhouse gases, will stand accountable before history if they don’t take the lead in that global challenge, the former vice president said.
“Without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the Earth itself,” Gore said in his acceptance speech.
He was awarded the prize for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness of how to counteract it. His co-winner, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was represented by its leader, Rajendra Pachauri.
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