Al Gore is the acclaimed winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was the runner-up for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2007 1. He has received international recognition for his involvement in politics, business, and environmental activism. He was the vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993-2001, the Democratic nominee for the 2000 Presidential Election, a member of the board of directors at Apple, and a senior advisor to Google2. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of California, among others3. Despite all these achievements in the fields of politics, business, and education, Gore’s most lasting impact can be seen in his work with environmental activism. Gore has founded
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Despite the claims by Gore’s opponents that Gore is financially benefitting from his environmental work, the criticisms that he is hypocritical because he owns numerous large houses and travels in a private jet, the allegations that many “facts” in his award-winning documentary The Inconvenient Truth are politically partisan and embellished, and the accusations that Gore should be focusing on reducing global meat consumption as a major source of emissions, Gore’s work as an environmental activist has been certified as accurate by numerous scientific studies and has been successful in educating leaders in politics and business as well as the average citizen about the dangers of our …show more content…
These politicians believed that support of the environment was key to their party’s success. In the same New York Times article where Gore mentioned the family discussions about pesticide use, Gore stated that he believed that the issues of global warming and protection of the environment would be able to cut through political party lines. Gore garnered the support of Democrats, many moderate Republicans, and citizens of all income levels. When critics implied that Gore was simply jumping on the environmental bandwagon, Gore showed that his record in Congress was more focused on doing what was right for the environment than what was right for his political career. Mentioning the fact that cigarettes are the most littered item in the world, their negative health effects, and their negative effects on the ozone and animal life, Gore sponsored a bill that would dramatically increase the warnings on cigarette labels. As a representative from Tennessee, one of the largest cigarette states in the nation, the large tobacco corporations and their many employees (Gore’s constituents) surely did not look upon this positively. Gore also sponsored legislation that would create the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (more commonly referred to as CERCLA or the
Despite the claims by Gore’s opponents that Gore is financially benefitting from his environmental work, the criticisms that he is hypocritical because he owns numerous large houses and travels in a private jet, the allegations that many “facts” in his award-winning documentary The Inconvenient Truth are politically partisan and embellished, and the accusations that Gore should be focusing on reducing global meat consumption as a major source of emissions, Gore’s work as an environmental activist has been certified as accurate by numerous scientific studies and has been successful in educating leaders in politics and business as well as the average citizen about the dangers of our …show more content…
These politicians believed that support of the environment was key to their party’s success. In the same New York Times article where Gore mentioned the family discussions about pesticide use, Gore stated that he believed that the issues of global warming and protection of the environment would be able to cut through political party lines. Gore garnered the support of Democrats, many moderate Republicans, and citizens of all income levels. When critics implied that Gore was simply jumping on the environmental bandwagon, Gore showed that his record in Congress was more focused on doing what was right for the environment than what was right for his political career. Mentioning the fact that cigarettes are the most littered item in the world, their negative health effects, and their negative effects on the ozone and animal life, Gore sponsored a bill that would dramatically increase the warnings on cigarette labels. As a representative from Tennessee, one of the largest cigarette states in the nation, the large tobacco corporations and their many employees (Gore’s constituents) surely did not look upon this positively. Gore also sponsored legislation that would create the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (more commonly referred to as CERCLA or the