2007

Nobel Prize lecture

Swedish 7 December 2007 Om att inte få Nobelpriset Jag står i dörren och ser genom yrande dammoln åt det håll där det ska finnas skog som fortfarande står orörd. I går körde jag kilometer efter kilometer genom kalhyggen och förkolnade brandrester efter en skog som 1956 var den vackraste jag någonsin sett men nu…

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Nobel Prize lecture

English December 7, 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in ’56, there was…

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Biographical

I was born on 10 October 1936 in Bad Cannstatt which is part of the city of Stuttgart in the southwest of Germany. When I was 3 years old, the family moved to the nearby village of Schmiden where I entered elementary school in 1942. In summer 1946, I was admitted to Johannes Kepler Gymnasium…

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Other resources

Links to other sites Videos Al Gore: ‘What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?’ from TED Talks. Al Gore: ‘New thinking on the climate crisis’ from TED Talks. Al Gore: ‘Averting the climate crisis ‘ from TED Talks.

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