Gore Calls for Green Power

nytimes.com — Former Vice President Al Gore said, during a speech at an energy conference in Washington, D.C., that Americans must abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts. "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," Mr. Gore said. "The future of human civilization is at stake." Mr. Gore called for the kind of concerted national effort that enabled Americans to walk on the moon, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy famously embraced that goal.

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