http://www.eonline.com/gossip/planetgossip/detail/index.jsp?uuid=a0e18755-aa17-46e6-aec6-6c64f3c41078Britney and Paris Are Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore Al Gore thinks Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson are getting in the way of saving the earth.
The former vice president was honored on Friday night at the Oceana Partners Awards Gala in Los Angeles. After being presented with his award by Anjelica Huston, Gore complained that the media didn’t give enough coverage to the recent release of a study that warns the polar ice caps could melt in just a few years, a galagoer tells me.
“Gore said there should be a huge alarm going off all over, and it should be front-page news,” the galagoer reports. “But when he looked in the paper, all he saw was Britney Spears losing custody of her kids, O.J. in trouble with the law again and Paris Hilton on the Late Show. He said he didn’t know what else to do anymore to get this message across.”
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Gore Accepts Oceana Award
By Borys Kit
Oct 9, 2007
It was chilly Friday night, but no one on this Pacific Palisades hillside backyard felt it. Crickets chirped, but they were ignored. That is the kind of spell former Vice President Al Gore had on the audience gathered at the home of Jena and Michael King for the annual Oceana awards gala where he accepted the environmental organization’s Partner’s Award.
Gore talked about a meeting he had with scientists on the latest findings about the Arctic Ocean, which said the ice could melt on 20 years, maybe even as soon as six. This was on the same day the headlines blared about Britney Spears losing custody of her kids and Paris Hilton’s appearance on Letterman. Yet here was a study, whose impact Gore said was the equivalent of the discovery of the ozone hole, “and no one pays attention!”
Gore summed up today’s situation using an African proverb: “If you want to travel quickly, go alone. If you have to travel far, go together. We have to go far. Quickly.”
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