Former US Democratic Vice-President Al Gore shot to fame again last year when he was awarded in conjunction with the scientists composing the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize for raising international awareness about the climate change crisis, especially through his award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
More recently he gave a speech in which he succinctly connects the climate crisis, the mushrooming foreign debt (used to buy foreign oil as America's reserves decline), and international security issues particularly in unstable, oil-producing regions. He goes on to challenge America to change course.
T. Boone Pickens is a Texan oil man, billionaire, and life-long Republican voter. He is currently investing US$10 billion to build the world's largest wind farm in northern Texas.
As unlikely as it may seem that these two successful and powerful from opposing political parties would agree, they share some similar views.
Write a brief response to this talk in which you:
1) explain in your own words the common problem at the root of climate change, foreign debt and international conflict.
2) the relationship between these problems.
3) the solution(s) as proposed by Al Gore and/or Boone Pickens.
4) your opinion on these presentations.
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