2009Nov3: U.S. Vice-President Al Gore starts his new book, “Our Choice, A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, with a quote from writer Kurt Vonnegut, in which he suggested that we should carve on the Grand Canyon for space visitors who come to the earth a century or two from now: “We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard … and too damn cheap” (New Yorker.com).
Reference: New Yorker.com, Elizabeth Kolbert: Al Gore and “Our Choice” http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/11/elizabeth-kolbert-al-gore-interview.html. The quote originally appeared in Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death (New York, The Berkley Publishing Group, 1991): 116.
Image Description: Sunset at Grand Canyon from Yavapai Point. Photo by Tobias Alt, 2007Apr7. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Canyon_NP-Arizona-USA.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license.
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