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Al Gore: Leave a blank spot for the US and go around to make progress

by Linda*in*SFNM [courtesy of Blog for America]

Al Gore electrified the Bali Summit when he spoke to the delegation of 187 countries at the Bali Climate Summit on Thursday.

Al Gore's oratory electrifies Bali summit

Thursday, 13 December , 2007, 20:05

Bali: In a speech likely to go down in history as an oratorical milestone in the fight against global warming, Al Gore, former US vice-president and co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, electrified the December 3-14 UN conference on climate change on its penultimate evening on Thursday.

Clearly speaking from his heart, Gore exhorted the nearly 11,000 delegates from 187 countries gathered here for the summit to bypass the US government delegation that is threatening to derail the entire Bali roadmap to start global negotiations that will help fight global warming.

Pointing out that climate change was already here, that it was no longer a matter that would affect future generations but was affecting the present one, Gore quoted the famous lines from the Nazi era: "First they came for the Jews and I did not do anything; then they came for the gypsies and I did not do anything; then they came for the neighbours and I did not do anything; when they came for me there was nobody to do anything for me."

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