“I love you but you’re green”

It is now due one month since Al Gore was awarded the Noble Prize for Peace but the ex-future President of the USA seems to be stuck to newspapers’ pages.

Just look for his name in the Guardian and you will check there are almost more entries for him than for George Bush, the president to become history.

I have tried myself hard to understand this phenomena but I feel I have just failed terribly.

My ignorance and blindness began the day the green prophet won the Noble. When I listened to the news in the morning radio bulletin I strived to visualize a dying American soldier in Iraq asking for forgiveness to the Almighty and thanking to the new environmental saint, but I failed utterly.

I thought the problem was with the American soldier. So, I moved to Africa. I strove very hard to imagine a Sudanese refugee wishing the documentary had come out one year before while being raped in truns by three militia men. I failed again.

Frankly, I don’t see how did Al Gore’s environmentalist endeavour either encouraged fraternity between nations, reduced the armies or promoted peace congresses.

I don’t realize what extraordinary things has he done to be in the news all the time besides enriching rather quickly.

I need to ask you people: what has Al Gore told you new? Didn’t you know already the ice was melting, the polar bears were drowning and the planet was warming? Have you started to divide the rubbish between the colourful bins on your way back home from the cinema?

Al Gore has certainly done something for the Earth planet. He has echoed the long lasting scientific alarms in the big screen, playing the role of the Hollywood star, making it simple, colourful and stupid, for everyone to understand. By doing this he raised awareness for the climatic risks humankind is facing in the future and promote change of people’s mentalities. That is true, but that is the all truth.

Unfortunately…

 

Ernest