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Energy Policy

Lindenwood University

2011

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The Persistence Of Hydrocarbons And The Humanist Ethic, Robert Bryce Oct 2011

The Persistence Of Hydrocarbons And The Humanist Ethic, Robert Bryce

Center for Applied Economics

In November 2009, former vice president Al Gore appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, and declared that unless the people of the world take drastic action to curb global carbon dioxide emissions, it could be “the end of civilization as we know it.”

Over the past decade or so, Gore has been at the forefront of a campaign aimed at reducing global carbon dioxide emissions. His book, An Inconvenient Truth, along with a documentary of the same title, were part of a tidal wave of books, magazine articles, and studies which claimed that the world faces a risk …