What does his global warming doc have to do with "Peace?"
Seriously!
2007-03-30 05:31:54 · 10 answers · asked by Robert S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
For the same reason Kofi Anan won it a couple of years ago -- selective accomplishments in a very specific category, coupled with an oftentimes embarassing career as a whole. If they can give the Peace Prize to a guy who sits idly by during Darfur and administers a nepotistic "Oil-for-Food" program; what's wrong with giving it to someone whose leadership in statecraft amounts to using a "lock-box" metaphor to describe Medicare investment?
2007-03-30 06:05:36 · answer #1 · answered by gallo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look at the baboons that have gotten it and weep. the once Nobel Prize is an award for political Activism as is the Oscars
2006 Muhammad Yunus
2005 Mohamed Elbaradei + International Atomic Energy Agency
2004 Wangari Maathai
2003 Shirin Ebadi
2002 Jimmy Carter
2001 United Nations, Kofi Annan
2000 Kim Dae-jung
1999 Médecins Sans Frontières
1998 John Hume, David Trimble
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995 Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993 Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
1989 The 14th Dalai Lama
1988 United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986 Elie Wiesel
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 Desmond Tutu
1983 Lech Walesa
1982 Alva Myrdal, Alfonso GarcÃa Robles
1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 Mother Teresa
1978 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1977 Amnesty International
1976 Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1975 Andrei Sakharov
1974 Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
1973 Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1972 No Award
1971 Willy Brandt
1970 Norman Borlaug
1969 International Labour Organization
1968 René Cassin
1967-66 No Award
1965 United Nations Children's Fund
1964 Martin Luther King
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
1962 Linus Pauling
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld
1960 Albert Lutuli
1959 Philip Noel-Baker
1958 Georges Pire
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 Prize money to Special Fund
1955 "
1954 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 George C. Marshall
1952 Albert Schweitzer
1951 Léon Jouhaux
1950 Ralph Bunche
1949 Lord Boyd Orr
1948 No Award
1947 Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
1946 Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
1945 Cordell Hull
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross
1939-1943 No Award
1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees
1937 Robert Cecil
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 Carl von Ossietzky
1934 Arthur Henderson
1933 Sir Norman Angell
1932 No Award
1931 Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 Nathan Söderblom
1929 Frank B. Kellogg
1928 No Award
1927 Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
1926 Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
1924 -23 No Award
1922 Fridtjof Nansen
1921 Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
1920 Léon Bourgeois
1919 Woodrow Wilson
1918 No Award
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross
1916-1913 No Award
1913 Henri La Fontaine
1912 Elihu Root
1911 Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
1910 Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909 Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
1906 Theodore Roosevelt
1905 Bertha von Suttner
1904 Institute of International Law
1903 Randal Cremer
1902 Ãlie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
1901 Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
2007-03-30 12:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Look at the others who have won this prize and you may see a trend of politics with this program.
2007-03-30 12:38:39 · answer #3 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why, nothing could be clearer!
If his ideas are adopted, most human activity will cease! No more fighting and wars, partly because war isn't carbon-neutral, and partly because there won't be anything worth fighting over, and partly because a lot of the world will starve to death.
But we'll have peace.
2007-03-30 12:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is the consolation prize for those that can't win the presidency or who muck it up very badly.
Carter, Clinton, Bush, FDR to name a few have gotten it or will get it.
2007-03-30 12:37:35 · answer #5 · answered by cappi 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That would be a serious slap in the face to all the Great people that deserve it.
2007-03-30 12:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Money
2007-03-30 12:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by Barack O Bankrupt 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it should be the prize for the best effort to further marxism.
2007-03-30 12:35:46 · answer #8 · answered by Ted Kennedy 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't bother me as much as Yasser Arafat actually winning one....
2007-03-30 12:42:15 · answer #9 · answered by Carpe diem 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Becaue there are a lot of REALLY STUPID people on Earth right. I am glad you are not one of them!
2007-03-30 12:36:05 · answer #10 · answered by Eric R 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋