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2.<br />

THE COLOR YELLOW.<br />

RUN, AL GORE, RUN!<br />

(RUN, ICRISAT, RUN!)<br />

Al Gore ran for US President and lost, The Man Who<br />

Would Be King; he has been running for Global<br />

Prescient for 30 years now and just won the Nobel<br />

Peace Prize, October 13. The lesson? When running,<br />

act locally, think globally. Now at peace, Al Gore is<br />

not running for President and losing again. He has been running<br />

a greater race. Run, Al Gore, run!<br />

Look at the image on this page. You are looking at the traffic lights from outer space. Man-made. To create it, I ran<br />

the original centerfold photo – from Rice Today, 2007 July-September, International Rice Research Institute, or<br />

IRRI, from an article on climate change – through Photoshop. The traffic flows on. The green has yielded to yellow<br />

(next to yellow is red).<br />

We’re on yellow now; the next color, red, means danger, mortal danger. We’re stuck to yellow, that color of global<br />

warning, because of error, negligence, stupidity.<br />

Having ran Asia’s Green Revolution, and now running her biotechnology, IRRI is running global warning too. Run,<br />

IRRI, run!<br />

Meanwhile, Al Gore says he and his wife Tipper will donate all whatever his share of the award to his own<br />

advocacy group, the Alliance for Climate Protection. He says (Alan Zarembo & Maggie Farley, latimes.com):

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