Al Gore's Climate Campaign Faces Uphill Battle

Almost lost in the shuffle of this latest recession, and with millions of Americans wondering where they will find a job at, remains the problem of global climate change. Al Gore, leader of the Climate Reality Project, is still traveling giving speeches about the importance of limiting and eventually eliminating the green house gases we put into the air everyday. Recently, a Gallup poll was released that said America's were more concerned about the state of our economy rather than our environment . Faced with these economic woes and an increasing amount of presidential hopefuls that are not yet convinced global climate change is a bad thing, Al Gore talks about some of these problems in an interview.

His response for people criticizing him for not doing enough I think says a lot about his leadership style, at least in this area. He says that he may not be the best showman for this message, but that does not make him the wrong showman for it either. He knows he has a great deal of knowledge on the topic and he can connect with people on a more personal level.
He goes on to make an interesting point regarding leadership styles. Sometimes, people are so against a message, that they start to dislike or even hate the speaker of the message. When this happens, and people will simply ignore the facts of an argument, Gore says you cannot feel frustrated, there is no time to be frustrated. You simply must move on to the next person and hope something else can change their mind.

While basically charged with leading this movement, as well as his own Climate Reality Project, Al Gore is an interesting case of someone who was once a leader with very high position power, being the Vice-president and almost the President as well, and turn that into extremely high personal power. However, as it is shown that can amount to a lot but it ultimately he cannot get what he wants down on just personal power alone.

Do you think Gore should step down a bit and allow a more charismatic voice to take over the global climate change podium? Is Gore spreading his message the right way or should he be more forceful with it? Do you think there are any ways of salvaging a relationship when a subordinate turns against not only your message but also turns on you as well?

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Randall Smith