Gore: Stop extra uitstoot nu!

"Former US Vice President Al Gore says he will start a grassroots political movement next month to seek a "freeze" on carbon emissions that scientists say are to blame for global warming.

Modelled after the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, Gore said he planned to enlist groups ranging from entrepreneurs and activists to political leaders to push for stronger policies to limit the growth of greenhouse gases.

"I think we need a carbon freeze," Gore told policy and business leaders at a conference organised by a venture capital firm. "I intend to launch an ongoing campaign of mass persuasion at the beginning of 2007."Gore said the grass-roots campaign would put heat on leaders in Washington to come up with more sophisticated policies to address global climate change.

"I think we need a mass movement in the United States. I think it ought to start at the grass roots," said Gore, author of the book, An Inconvenient Truth, which was made into a hit documentary film on global warming."

Bron: www.climateark.org