Date published: 2006/05/20
The BBC says:
Former US vice-president Al Gore, who is at the Cannes Film Festival, has warned the world is facing a "planetary emergency" due to global warming.
A documentary based on the politician's environmental campaigning is being screened at the festival.
Mr Gore said the world faced a stark choice between the end of civilisation and a future for its children.
He also said he was not considering running again for presidential office in 2008.
Mr Gore said global warming was a "challenge to our moral imagination to understand it and then to respond to it urgently".
The documentary An Inconvenient Truth is based on lectures Al Gore has been delivering about environmental crisis for many years.
The film shows photographs of changes to glaciers around the world, with snow disappearing from the Alps, Antarctica and the South Pole.
"People have been moved by it," Mr Gore said. "People coming out feeling a sense of urgency."
He stressed the problem was moral, not political, and said he hoped the current US government would re-think its environmental strategy and sign up to the successor to the Kyoto treaty.
Well at least Gore, like Jimmy Carter, is trying to do something useful in his retirement. (You can guarantee that Bush will just try to further line his own pockets.) On the other hand, if you spend all your time travelling around the world, mostly by airplane and car, complaining about global warming, then it looks like you are avoiding your own "inconvenient truth".
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