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From: Andy Cook <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Andy Cook <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Gore's Nobel Peace Prize
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:11:27 +0100
Exactly. It is a CRITICAL forum after all.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Fagg
>Sent: 15 October 2007 14:27
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Gore's Nobel Peace Prize
>
>"not something on one would expect in a forum like this."
>
>Why not?
>
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>Linehan, Denis wrote:
>> How interesting it is that 'Goring Gore' is primarily an activity of
>> American Neo-Cons - not something on one would expect in a
>forum like
>> this.
>>
>> See 'Going After Gore'/Vanity Fair/10/07
>>
>> http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/gore200710
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr G. Kearns
>> Sent: 15 October 2007 12:59
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Gore's Nobel Peace Prize
>>
>> Now, come on - when it comes to limited track record -
>Kissinger? Peres?
>> de
>> Klerk? Begin?
>>
>> Gerry Kearns
>>
>> On Oct 15 2007, David Storey wrote:
>>
>>> Don't worry - you are not alone!
>>>
>>> The impression seems to have been created that Gore 'discovered'
>> climate
>>> change and is running a one-person awareness-raising campaign.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> Is anyone apart from me bothered that Gore got this in place of
>>> thousands of other environmental activists with long years of
>>> campaigning/action/service behind them?
>>>
>>> Has there been any other Nobel awarded to a person with such a
>>> limited past track record? Most prizes have been awarded to
>recognise
>>> a
>> lifetime
>>> of achievement, for example the Nobel prize for medicine
>was awarded
>>> to
>>
>>> those who first started their scientific journey in 1963? The peace
>>> prize award usually appears to be a political act, to a greater or
>>> lesser extent, compared to other Nobel prizes..
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeremy W. Crampton wrote:
>>>> The geography blogs are picking up on the Nobel award to Al
>>>> Gore/IPCC
>>
>>>> this
>>> morning. Frank at VerySpatial makes a good point and I wonder if the
>> AAG
>>> will be putting out a press release or notice about this?
>>>> "I think this is one of the first Nobel Peace Prizes awarded for an
>> area
>>> that is dominated by physical geography. Wangari Muta Maathai won in
>> 2004
>>> for her work in sustainable development, which is the other prize
>>> focusing on physical geographic issues. I find it interesting the
>> Nobel
>>> people are turning more and more to areas beyond human
>conflict when
>>> recognizing impacts on world peace. The Nobel Institute gives out
>> several
>>> prizes in a range of disciplines, but I think the peace prize is the
>> most
>>> recognized. It's also the only slot in which geography fits nicely
>>> (although you can make a strong case for Economics). Hopefully this
>> prize
>>> might help raise geographic awareness around the world."
>>>> (http://veryspatial.com/?p=1797)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> __
>>>> Jeremy W. Crampton
>>>> Editor, Cartographica
>>>> Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Geography Department of
>>>> Geosciences PO Box 4105 Georgia State University Atlanta GA 30302
>>>> (404) 413-5771 <-- NOTE NEW NUMBER
>>>
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