This afternoon, Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore called on America to launch a 10-year effort to produce all our electricity from renewable sources, echoing JFK's challenge to land on the moon. He neatly wraps up our current interlocking problems and traces them to one root cause: "We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change."

Watch Gore rock out loud:

The New York Times has the full (and annotated) speech.