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Originally Posted by DarkFlame145
He has impacted so many people, from the extremely poor that don't have clean running water
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He hasn't done that though. He's attempting to, but he hasn't yet. The technology to do that is available in many forms, but nobody has been able to implement it around the world. Also, surprisingly, there are still skeptics of global warming, and Al Gore did much more than just tell us something we already know. Keep in mind, he wasn't the only one that won the prize. It was an entire UN committee. They were awarded the prize "for their 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" (nobelpeaceprize.org). In other words, they were awarded the prize for attempting to unite the world against what is the biggest issue mankind as a whole may ever face. Dean, on the other hand, is trying to repair a culture that has been spoiled with celebrities and excessive money, and has lost sight of the value of education, creative thinking, and engineering. This is not a world issue he is trying to conquer, nor is it the biggest issue in the world. Yes, FIRST is great, and I love it, and I know it has made a big impact on me personally. And yes, Dean deserves some recognition for it. That does not mean he deserves a Nobel Prize though. He has not made a major contribution to the world, yet.
Don't get me wrong, Dean is worthy of quite a bit of recognition, but to claim that he deserves a Nobel Prize shows a bit of ignorance of what a Nobel Prize actually signifies.