Capital Area Reads
GO GREEN!
“…inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are not responded to, their significance doesn’t diminish; it grows.” –Al Gore
We are pleased to announce our 2008 Capital Area Reads One Book selection: An Inconvenient Truth, by former Vice-president and recent Nobel Peace Prize-winner Al Gore.
Capital Area Reads Committee Chair Sarah Redman describes the compelling nature of the book, which serves as an introduction to the topic of climate changes and global warming: “The most striking element of our committee’s choice of An Inconvenient Truth was how strongly the members felt after reading it. Although there are two sides to the debate, Gore presents the findings of the majority of the scientific community in a way that’s accessible to the layperson. His approach, combined with superb graphic illustrations, make this a book the committee felt could be read by people of many ages and backgrounds. We believe that anyone who reads it will understand that even small lifestyle changes are significant.”
About the Book
“With the emerging consensus on global warming today, Mr. Gore's passionate warnings about climate change seem increasingly prescient. He has revived the slide presentation about global warming that he first began giving in 1990 and has…turned that presentation into a book and a documentary film, both called An Inconvenient Truth…
Mr. Gore shows why environmental health and a healthy economy do not constitute mutually exclusive choices, and he enumerates practical steps that can be taken to reduce carbon emissions to a point below 1970's levels. As a user-friendly introduction to global warming and a succinct summary of many of the central arguments, An Inconvenient Truth is lucid, harrowing and bluntly effective.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
About the Author
Former Vice President Al Gore helped organize the first Congressional hearings on global warming several decades ago. He shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." As an environmental activist, Gore lectures widely on the topic of global warming. In 2006, he was featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. His other books include The Assault on Reason (2007) and Earth in the Balance (1992).
