Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

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Picking up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, OUR CRISIS provides a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis, drawing on Mr. Gore's 40-year career as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently. The book stands as a call to action for those primed to fight for solutions that really work - including some bold initiatives that were deened impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining momentum and support around the world. Photos/Illus. 352p.

From the Publisher

The former vice president and author of such best-sellers as An Inconvenient Truth and Earth in the Balance presents a follow-up work to address key environmental issues while profiling and evaluating possible solutions. Original.

Review

John Godfrey - Times Literary Supplement
"Al Gore's OUR CHOICE is highly political and is bound to divide opinion in the United States. He clearly intended to awaken his domestic public to the importance of present and future change in the climate, and he writes lucidly, with many helpful, and often beautiful, illustrations."

Review

Elizabeth Kolbert - New Yorker
"By the end of OUR CHOICE, it may be clear that we possess the tools needed to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions, but the book has also shown--intentionally or not--that deploying them would require a lot from us. It would mean changing the way we eat, shop, manufacture, and get around, and, ultimately, how we see ourselves."

More about the book

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore updates the status of the compelling ecological issues he first raised in his 2006 film and book AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, revealing that the solutions to every environmental problem exist, if we can summon the collective initiative to enact them. Gore identifies the most pressing issues facing the planet, from our reliance on fossil fuel to global warming to the deterioration of the oceans, and then provides specific plans to overcome each crisis, including practical information which makes it easy for each reader to do their part in protecting the planet, both locally and globally.