TEDtalks: The Other Al Gore Speech, and what Tony Robbins Really Told Him

[im10ashus]

You've seen "An Inconvenient Truth" and heard plenty about it - about this documentary that manages to be both lucid and riveting while trailing Al Gore as he travels from city to city warning about climate change. You may even have seen the short portrait of Gore (part 1 - part 2) made by director Spike Jonze before the 2000 election - and inexplicably kept in a drawer by the Democratic leadership until recently.

But once you've heard Gore's powerful message, agreed that climate change is no longer debatable, maybe wondered how different the world would be today had he entered the White House six years ago, and perhaps caught yourself hoping that he might run again, you're left with a question: What can we - individuals - do about the climate crisis?

A partial answer is coming today in the form of the other Al Gore speech: the one he gave last February at the TED conference, where he outlined a 14-points template. Gore gave two speeches at TED2006. The acronym stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, and TED is considered one of the world's leading events in these fields, attracting every year a high-profile crowd of 1000 innovators and doers to Monterey, California. Gore went on stage the first evening and presented the slide show that is at the center of "An Inconvenient Truth". Three days later, he closed the conference with a second keynote.

This "What can I do" talk, together with those of several other TED speakers, is being released today on the Internet, for free and in full video. It shows both the "old" Gore - lecturing us about global warming with depth of knowledge and intensity - as well as the "new" Gore that many seem to have discovered only recently - funny and passionate and convincingly authentic.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruno-giussani/tedtalks-the-otheri_b_23867.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Thank you!

click on "Al Gore speech" for the second speech. I :loveya: this man.

[im10ashus]

2. He's so incredible.

I cry whenever I think of what could have been. Did you see him on Letterman the other evening?

:hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. I caught the video on C&L

Letterman is on past my bedtime.

Thank god for the internets!

[bettyellen]

3. the tony robbins part is very interesting.....

"One of these talks contains another powerful Gore-related moment of truth. At one point during his speech, motivational speaker Tony Robbins asks the audience to raise their hand if they have ever failed to achieve something significant in their lives. All hands go up. So Robbins asks: why did you fail? And starts listing the answers: not enough knowledge; lack of time; not enough money; lack of other resources; wrong boss. "The Supreme Court", says a voice from front row, and it's Al Gore's. The whole room laughs. Robbins too, and walks towards Gore to shake his hand. But then he becomes serious again: "You may not have enough money, you may not have the Supreme Court. But that's not the defining factor. The defining factor is never resources: it's resourcefulness". The audience goes silent, sensing that something is gonna happen. "If you have emotion, something that I have experienced very strongly from you the other night at a level that's as profound as I ever experienced, and if you had communicated with that emotion, I believe you would have ... won!". Easy to guess what goes to many minds in the audience at that moment: Wow! Has Tony Robbins just flatly told Gore the other inconvenient truth?"

[im10ashus]

4. He pretty much laid it out, IMHO.

HOW ARE YOU????

:hug:

:hi:

[bettyellen]

5. ok doll

how's things with you?
we need to meet up soon, maybe have a beach day. :hi:

[im10ashus]

7. Beach day is just what I need.

And we better do it before they further erode any environmental protection.