Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis |  | Author: Al Gore
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It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective will. Properly understood, the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of suffering and misery that have long been neglected, and to transform the prospects of future generations, giving them a chance to live healthier, more prosperous lives as they continue their pursuit of happiness. Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that, together, will solve this crisis. It is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action—not only on an individual basis but as participants in the political processes by which every country, and the world as a whole, makes the choice that now confronts us. There is an old African proverb that says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." We have to go far, quickly. We can solve the climate crisis. It will be hard, to be sure, but if we can make the choice to solve it, I have no doubt whatsoever that we can and will succeed. —AL GORE, from the introduction
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 Our Choice November 20, 2009
James E. Jones
Our Choice is full of good sound information about our choices to save our earth. I am a pediatrician and realize it is one of the most important issues for the health of our children and grandchlidren. I ordered copies to give to each child at Christmas as I think it is an important book. James E Jones MD
 The Smartest Man Alive is Back Alive! Totally Convincing, Totally Really Scary! November 19, 2009
Sea Bone (Seabone, CA)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Dr. Al Gore has finally done it. The inventor of the internet, discoverer of weather and pioneer of the modern American strip club, Gore has finally convinced the once ignorant masses that we ARE the cause of global warming. How does he know? I don't know, look at all the charts and stuff. He really knows what he's talking about.
Then you look at the cover. It's got FOUR - yes, four - hurricanes on it! Look people, you keep driving around in your SUV's, going to work, feeding your children, using lights and computers and those four hurricanes can easily turn into 20 hurricanes at once! How do I know? Al Gore is one of the smartest scientists out there, thats how!
There's even a great practical section on what you can do. Not just for yourself or your planet destroying children but for the whole universe. Turning off appliances not in use, using only one square of toilet paper (Yes, one. Even for number two!), reducing your daily TV watching from 6 hours down to 5, disposing of your least favorite child(with a great pictorial how-to)and my favorite, abolishing dinner.
This is the final warning until the next one. But you never know, this next one or the next, next one could be your last. Unless there's another. Do you really want to take that chance?
 Not the sequel I was looking for... November 19, 2009
Busy Lady (Brentwood, TN USA)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
I would hope that Al Gore's sequel to An Inconvenient Truth would be a book that would explain the incorrect items that were presented as fact in his last book. Perhaps he could explain why the earth hasn't warmed at all since 1998? Or maybe why global ice has not decreased at all (but rather transferred from one pole shrinking slightly while the other grows...)? Perhaps he could elaborate on why a British court threw his movie out of schools because they were so factually devoid or why there are thousands of scientists that are backing away from the global warming hoax as fast as they can so they are not linked with him.
As I flipped through this book, I only saw further bending of the truth, outright falsehoods, and ways for Al Gore to make money. If that is what you're looking for, then this is the book for you.
No Rescue Plan - But a Worthy Addition to Any Library November 19, 2009
Klaus H. Hemsath (Palmetto, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Al Gore's "Our Choice" is a beautiful book with much information, great photographs, and splendid graphics. It is a book I enjoyed reading and it is a worthy addition to any library at a very reasonable price.
In its introduction, Al Gore promises to offer a solution to global warming and climate changes. This offer was the main reason for purchasing the book.
Al Gore explains very well why our Earth is suffering an existential threat and correctly predicts that we are inflicting lasting damages to the only habitat we have. He shares concerns of many informed citizens that we will leave a severely damaged planet to future generations. Ice melting and extinction of species are irreversible. Our grandchildren and their descendants will be paying severely for the sins of earlier generations.
The book does not deliver on its major promise and does not propose a workable plan or proposal on how to save our world from continuing climate changes. The book only explains the considerable but incomplete collection of technological options we already have at our disposal. It does not deal with the impending shortage of liquid, emission-free fuels for the world's transportation systems. It falls short on identifying and defining several, critically missing technologies that still must be found very soon.
Another, glaring omission is the lack of any reference to the Virgin Earth Challenge, which was floated with much publicity by Messrs. Branson and Gore a few years ago. It appears that Mr. Gore has given up on supporting an all important process for cleaning our atmosphere from excessive carbon dioxide accumulation. Such process is still the single most valuable contribution inventors can make to restoring Earth to historic climate conditions, which humanity and all other forms of life have adapted to over many millennia.
My expectations of finding a couple of novel, substantial, and transformational ideas for saving our Earth were not answered. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore wrote a book that undoubtedly deserves to become one cornerstone for the edifice of technologies that some day can save planet Earth from destruction by overheating.
optimistic textbook instead of an alarmist editorial November 18, 2009
Rick (midwest)
I was pleasantly surprised reading this volume. I am an climate change agnostic and was expecting another alarmist editorial like his last two environmental books. Instead the first 80% of volume methodologically presents various aspects of the environment and energy technology almost as a textbook. Plus it is laviously illustrated with a color photograph or diagram on every pair of pages. The diagrams are pretty accurate and fairly presented. I had been annoyed with some of the graphs and animation in Inconvenient Truth like unlabled axes or simulations maskerading as data, but little of the that here. I learned a fair number new facts reading this volume that I hadn't seen in the books or science magazines before. I would recommend this volume as textbook for a high school or college survey course on the environment and energy policy for all these reasons.
Second, this volume separates most of the editorial commentary to the final chapters. In addition it is not melodramatic, that is, one energy technology vilified and other worshiped. Flaws and advantages of each or presented to help the reader decide. There is a tone of optimism in the book too. Gore points out where where we have succeeded in in the past, e.g US air pollution and educating developing-world women. These could be pointers for future success.
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