Green = Peace?

phew... I had not seen this earlier today!

Al Gore, UN Panel share Nobel for peace
Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s climate change panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for spreading awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations for counteracting it.

My wife and I always thought Bill Clinton would get the Nobel Peace Prize some day for his humanitarian work in Africa but guess what...poverty and death in Africa is old hat to the world - the enviro-crisis is the new thing everyone is worried about. A book and an award-winning documentary later... Gore is the face of the fight in this crisis..... and he gets a Nobel recognition for this activism. Kudos!

Heady stuff, I say. Detractors would argue that this continues the tradition of Nobel Peace prize being a political award given to someone associated with the issue-of-the-moment... but more power to the green movement, I say.

OReilly & others on Fox eat ur heart out tonight :) And yeah...you too, Bush. (Thank god for hanging chads, huh! :) What a ride its been since then!)

I am sure environmentalists everywhere are rejoicing at the Nobel committee's statement that green equals peace and while I may blog about other responses later, for starters here is something from Alex Steffen at the Worldchanging.com site:

Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize symbolizes more than just a head-nod towards some eco-fad -- it shows that sustainability has finally moved from the outskirts of activism to the most central halls of authority. Concern for the planetary future is now as credible as it is possible to get. The beginning of the struggle to save ourselves from ecological catastrophe has come to an end and we can begin to see the outlines of the next stage of the struggle.

And though I don't see what the correlation is......

Gore's Nobel sparks new presidential speculation

Nobel Prize likely to increase pressure on Gore to run

Gore’s Nobel: The Commentariat Fires Up

Expected perhaps considering there was a NY Times ad begging Al Gore to run a few days back!