Climate change leader tells the ugly truth, offers new plan for America in Obama-esque speech

On Wednesday Al Gore made the speech that many had hoped Barack Obama would have made months ago. It almost seemed that the former vice president was channeling Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, as his words plainly yet eloquently defined the trouble of our times, offered a course of action and rallied his listeners to the urgency and imperative of … change.

The New York Times, in its coverage, mentioned in part these lines of Gore’s as a preface:

“The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,” he said in a midday speech to a friendly crowd of mostly young supporters in Washington. “And even more – if more should be required – the future of human civilization is at stake.”

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This is what happened at Constitution Hall in Washington.