Al Gore’s book offers solutions to climate change

This is a follow-up to his New York Times bestselling book An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale 2006), where former US Vice-president Al Gore unequivocally laid out the case that climate change is the greatest challenge of our time.

With Our choice, he gives us the tools to solve it.

Our choice offers the most up-to-date and deepest thinking on climate change across a variety of disciplines,” said Gore.

“But most importantly, it offers solutions that we can— and must — begin to implement today.

Global audience

The need for this book is more urgent than ever, and I am proud to be working with Rodale, a company that for more than six decades has been at the forefront of environmental responsibility, to bring these solutions to a global audience.”

Since the 2006 release of An Inconvenient Truth and his Academy Award winning film of the same title, Al Gore has organised and moderated more than 30 comprehensive “Solutions Summits,” where the world’s leading experts in the fields of neuroscience, agriculture, economics, and information technology came together to discuss climate change and share their knowledge — all with the goal of finding the most effective courses of action.

Our choice is a result of the groundbreaking insights offered by these participants, whose expertise has made it possible to construct a fresh and new approach not seen before.

“Despite the many challenges to solving the climate crisis, there is hope, and the opportunities are everywhere — especially in the form of increasingly powerful technological tools,” said Vice President Gore. “Renewable sources of energy—if developed — could completely replace CO2-rich fossil fuels, and new technologies can allow us to move forward with unprecedented scale and speed to avert the worst impacts and set the stage for successful recovery.”

In Our Choice, Gore, a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his environmental work, explains how solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and nuclear energies work and lays out the pros, cons, and latest technological developments of each source along with a state-of-the-art analysis of carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

Gore looks at how deforestation, soil erosion and degradation and population issues are contributing to the climate crisis and discusses the strategies being undertaken to counter their effects.

He makes sense of the arguments on both sides of the carbon sequestration discussion and outlines the latest and most effective efficiency measures that both big business and everyday people can begin to implement.

Breaking new ground, Gore also explains how the human mind can be an impediment to change.

Based on discussions with psychologists and neuroscientists, he reveals the brain system that can guide us in making the crucial decisions necessary to safeguard civilisation and how to employ new approaches in order to change human behaviour.

At the core of many of the solutions discussed in Our Choice is the value and price placed on CO2.