Al Gore shares wins the Nobel Peace prize- climate change gets centre stage

Former US vice president Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were declared as winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace prize earlier today.

The prize recognizes their efforts to create awareness about the dangers of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for combating it.

It is heartening that the world is becoming more concerned about the dangers we are creating for ourselves and our children (and our aging parents as well).

To paraphrase from the preface to Al Gore’s book, we have not inherited the earth from our forefathers; we are merely custodians for our future generations. If each one of us can remember this and do whatever we can, in oue own small way- the world will be around for much longer than is currently likely. On that sombre note, congratulations Mr Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.