ABSTRACT
Albert Arnold (Al) Gore, like his father, would make his first foray into national politics on behalf of the American state of Tennessee. He was born in Washington DC on March 31, 1948. Gore's convictions about the abuse of the environment, he says, go back to his days on a Tennessee farm. Gore's first book on the environment, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, was published in 1992 and was the result of a "search for truths" which accompanied his attendance to his son's recuperation after a life-threatening car accident. In Earth in the Balance, Gore makes an attempt to convince an audience of his peers and the wider public about the integrated reality of nature and humanity. The concept of the "inconvenient" truth is one that Gore employs to great effect in his 2007 book The Assault on Reason, and later in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change (2013).
