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Students Heckle Gore Climate
Speech
Sebastien Cadieux & Brian
Hastien
Brock
Press
Thursday April 5, 2007
Concordia president Claude Lajeunesse was booed as he took the
stage to give Al Gore an honorary doctorate from the university
on March 22.
The brainchild of Concordia Student Union president Khaleed Juma,
the doctorate was presented while the crowd, present to listen to
speeches from Gore and David Suzuki, filed out the exits after the
question and answer period with Gore was cancelled.
The talk took place in the cadre of Less Talk, More Action: A Youth
Action Summit on Climate Change, organized by Youth Action Montreal
members and Concordia University students Peter Schiefke and Mohamed
Shuriye.
Gore and Suzuki's message was clear: The world is in imminent danger
if we continue our current habits and don't change towards a more
eco-friendly society.
The former U.S. vice-president's speech was effectively his Academy
Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth with updated statistics,
and presented by an angrier, fist-shaking Gore.
His presentation was halted at least twice as opponents to his
agenda began to shout out.
They called him a liar and a villain, and screamed, "What
about your swimming pools?" in regards to recent allegations
that the monthly electricity bill of Gore's estate rivalled a year's
bill for the average American home.
This led Gore to joke, "I don't even know if you guys are
left- or right-wing".
Suzuki also made a 45-minute speech on the topic du jour. The speech
was punctuated by numerous bouts of applause from a rather enthusiastic
audience.
He espoused that the media should play a more central role in the
way it informs the public, saying, "Over half of all Nobel
Prize winners are telling us we could have as little as 10 years
to avoid a catastrophe and this is pronounced by our media as 'not
newsworthy'.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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