The book started out good with information and fact but quickly turned into a rant from former Vice President Gore. I agree that something needs to be done to save our planet and would have liked to see more of how individuals are changing it but this was too much rant even for me. There are plenty other books out there worth reading then to waiste your time with this.

This book was written in 1992 and he spoke a great deal on global warming and what the USA and the world needs to do to prevent it. We haven't made much progress during this time, especially under the Bush years. He mentioned the auto industy several times on how they are going to make better gas effecient cars. The opposite seemed to happen with the SUV's that were sold during this time period. It doesn't look good in my opinion that we are doing much to better improve the quality of our environment.

Long before AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH became famous, Gore wrote EARTH IN THE BALANCE in 1992, an amazing book with detailed research. He had just turned 40, lost the presidential bid, and his 6 year old son had been hit by a car. Gore worked on the book as he sat by his son's hospital bed. If anyone needs proof as to how brilliant this man is, just read this book. On p. 12 he states:

"In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing....The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outward manifestation of the inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual."

America may never realize just how brilliant a man Gore is--and how much we lost in 2000.

The subtitle should be a common sense perspective. Contrary to a popular misconception, Al Gore is definitely not a crackpot. Since this book was written, nearly 100% of scientists believe that global warming is a fact. Gore's ideas about a global Strategic Environmental Initiative are even more urgent today. We would be much closer to overcoming this massive problem had Gore not been cheated out of the presidency in 2000. Unfortunately this book deals mainly with governmental actions and not individual solutions.

Unreadable.

Yawn. He's boring as an author, too.

This book is riddled with scientific inaccuracies and is boring, self-righteous and foolish. Since when is a politician with no background in science qualified to write a book like this any how. How anyone could view this man worthy of a Nobel Prize is beyond me.

Al Gore wrote this in 1992. Why are we still not listening??

an inconvenient truth that Al Gore didn't do anything about it when he had the chance

How do you get people to grasp the seriousness of this problem?

Al Gore tried. Now Republicans think it is a "partisan issue."

The fact that he wrote this in 1992 is what good citizenship is all about.

There are some offbeat passages in the book that make it interesting. For example, he speaks about dysfunctional families. The result of a long period of dependence on the nurturing parent during infancy and childhood meant that the children of such families "will absorb and integrate the dysfunctional rules and warped assumptions about life being transmitted by the parents." It took great courage for Mr. Gore to say something like that. How else do you explain Trump rallies? And the dysfunctional governments and countries built by such people?

We are disconnected from the natural world. We think of nature as something separate from us. As if we were not animals.

Somehow we need a new "common purpose." But if an existential crisis such as climate change cannot bring people together, what can? It seems hopeless to me, but I plug on.

I've been a fan of Gore for awhile. I learned the 'inconvenient truth' of what our inaction
has done to the planet. and how clean water will
be scarce worldwide.

Earth in the Balance 02052007 Ecology and the Human Spirit