The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), "for their efforts to collect and disseminate knowledge about climate change caused by man, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to fight against these changes. "
That, for me, probably the Nobel Peace most significant since this distinction is very honorable.
Indeed, global warming will bring tremendous changes, with dramatic consequences on water resources and food supplies. As noted by Nicolas Hulot, democracy is a luxury that can afford an affluent society. Once the main resources will begin to fail seriously, all these fine principles will quickly shatter, and democracy may become a distant memory.
access to energy sources, control of water supply, etc.. will perhaps create conflicts between peoples and states equally bloody border wars conducted by European nations in the nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.
The Nobel jury has understood, and he wanted to launch a powerful message to governments around the world to the problems related to global warming are finally taken into account as they should be is to tell a priority.
Only if we get serious and massively to the rapid degradation of our environment we will be able to keep the peace.
For more information:
1. The Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and the IPCC (The World)
2. Climate and peace (The World)
3. An Inconvenient Truth (Gaia)
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