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U.S Ex-Vice President Gore Visits PKU
PKU NEWS 2008--11—18
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=227072846
Peking University. Beijing. Nov. 18th, 2008: On the morning of Nov. 16th, the former
vice president of United States and recipient of Nobel Peace Prize of 2007 Mr. Albert
Arnold Gore Jr. visited the University and held talks with University representatives
at PKU Tan Siu Lin Center for International Studies, which was attended by
Executive Vice-President LIN Jianhua, Assistant President LI Yansong, Academician
of the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering TANG Xiaoyan, dean of
the School of Engineering CHEN Shiyi as well as over 60 representatives.
During the talks, Gore gave a detailed presentation on the topic of global warming,
illustrating serious environmental challenges worldwide due to the dramatic increase
of carbon dioxide release caused by human activities, such as glacier melting in
highlands and South and North Poles, big increase of world average temperature,
natural disasters like draught, hurricane and flood, ecological destruction like
bio-invasion and animal extinction, widespread outbreak of infectious diseases and
so on. After a close analysis of the cause and effect relation between global warming
and other problems mentioned above, he pointed out that there was an intense
conflict between human civilization and the planet we live in, and if we human beings
did not adopt new technologies and change our fixed pattern of thinking, the conflict
would be more and more intensified. At last, he summarized his speech by saying
that the problem of global warming had become a public awareness today, and
though challenging it is, we should not fail to act but to work together to protect the
Earth instead; we should pay attention to not only economic development but also
environmental protection. During the two-hour speech, Gore illustrated the problem
of global warming and its consequences with vivid pictures, substantial data, and
touching videos, ensnaring the audience into his passionate speech.
About Albert Gore
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., born in Washington, on March 31, 1948, is a U.S. politician
and former vice president (1993-2001). Born in a family of politicians in Texas, he
graduated from Harvard University in 1969 and joined the army in the same year. He
joined the Vietnam war as a journalist. He was elected House representative in1976
and Senator in 1984, both representing Tennessee. In 1988, he failed in the race of
democratic presidential nomination but he tried again in 1992 as the running-mate of
Bill Clinton and was elected Vice President at last. His environmental publications
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