Al Gore receives Nobel Peace Prize

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It's just strange, because Al Gore doesn't really work to end world conflict, he works to educate the world about the dangers of global warming... You would think the person they award the Nobel Peace Prize to would work in some way to end some conflict somewhere in the world... So you can see how it's confusing.

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I read an interesting Tribune Op-Ed piece about this yesterday. Global climate change is definately on the Pentagon's radar screen for its potential to cause war in the future. I must have heard a dozen times that war will be increasingly fought over water and war will be more likely to be fought in areas that dry out because of global warming.

Last year's Peace Prize winner was the guy who started handing out microloans in the 3rd World. This has very little to do directly with peace, but the idea was that reducing poverty would tend to lessen war over time. Global warming has the potential to increase poverty by making once marginal farms barren. Everyone in the MSM like the microloan prize because that guy wasn't identified with an ideology and everyone on this forum liked it because it was a free market solution. The fact that Gore is neither has gotten many of your goats, but his efforts to stop global warming will hopefully pay dividends in the future in stopping war.