Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.

The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis."

"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause.

ziggy wrote:Somehow I can't see Al Gore chaining himself to the power house gates nor lying down in front of a bulldozer clearing a power plant site.

I just can't see that windbag as credible.

I never thought that I would say this, Ziggy; b--bbb-but, I a-aa-a-aaagree with you. Why do you think that ecologists don't denounce that charlatan?

sodbuster wrote:"Seemingly smart people are no more willing to call Gore on his pompus, incredible grandstanding about certain environmental matters..."

Well zig I agree he comes across as pompous and grandstanding personally.

But I have thought he was mostly right on issues.

Can you give examples of these "environmental matters"?