I know that Al Gore is in the press frequently, but I can’t resist writing a blog post about him because he is the spokesperson for the current mainstream environmental movement to fight climate change. We all know that he starred in the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, but did you also know that he wrote a book under the same name upon which the movie is based?

In addition to writing and starring in “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore was a former congressman who served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and served as the Vice President of the United States for the Clinton Administration. But that is not all! Mr. Gore is also co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management and Current.tv, is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple, Incorporated, is a senior advisor to Google, is a partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (a highly respected Venture Capital firm in Silicon Valley), and is a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Let’s not forget that he also was a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

Whew, talk about a looonnnnggggg list of accomplishments. If only he would have ran in the current United States Presidential election, then he could add President of the United States to his list of accomplishments.

But, why write all of this?

I write this because Al Gore is the spokesperson of the current mainstream environmental movement to fight climate change and I long for society to awaken and recognize a someone as the spokesperson for humanitarian issues (such as ending poverty).

I suppose you could say that Bill Gates, Bono, or Muhammad Yunnus could be nominated for this role, but society has not given humanitarian issues the level of attention that environmental issues receive. Who would you nominate for the spokesperson of humanitarian issues and what needs to happen for society to give humanitarian issues the attention it deserves?