Gore was in Tokyo recently. As our agency helps to promote the book/movie, I got a good seat to a talk he gave (along with Japan's answer to a certain Japanese-Canadian environmentalist, Ryoichi Yamamoto). The fact that this winter here in Japan features ski hills with NO SNOW, there is a whole lot of what he says that is true. That alone should rally people behind the threat but there seems to be a lot of separation in people's opinions based on trust and economic issues. Not much I can add to seven pages of this thread really, just that I think you need to see climate change from the perspective of a country that is normally chilly and snowy, but is actually far from it. Global warming has happened, so the issue is stemming the tide.
Gore has also totally chunked out. Dude gained what Clinton lost. He is a great speaker, but his size kinda surprised me.
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