I don't think that there is necessarily a direct conflict between growth of any kind and environmental sustainability. It depends on the pattern of the growth, the nature of the growth. If there are investments in, for example, replacing old dirty technologies with new, much more efficient, non-polluting technologies, that is a form of growth. Should we avoid that because it represents growth? Of course not. But it's an example of the many policy changes that are needed to introduce the new, more efficient, less polluting ways of traveling, of building, of working, of pursuing a higher quality of life without producing the pollution that is causing such great harm to the habitability of our planet.
15.06.2007,
what about cutting down on expensive lectures by ex-presidents that involve flying them and their entire entourage around the world?
Anonymous Coward, 09.01.2008 10:38:46
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Former Vice President Al Gore is Chairman of Current TV. He also serves as Chairman of Generation Investment Management. Al Gore is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer and a Senior Advisor to Google. Besides he is visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Al Gore was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and served four terms. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990, and was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. During the Administration, Al Gore was a central member of President Clinton's economic team. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives.
Al Gore led the Clinton Administration's efforts to protect the global environment and authored a best selling book on the topic, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He lectures widely on the topic of global warming, which he calls "the climate crisis", and in 2006 starred in the Academy Award" Academy Award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", discussing global warming and the environment.
Gore's latest book, a critique of the current level of political discourse in the United States titled "The Assault on Reason", was published in May 2007.
Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, reside in Nashville, Tennessee.
