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Usha Vance Posted a Video and People Spotted Something Absolutely Wild on a Shelf in the Background

Published on: 2025-05-27 05:14:45

In an Instagram video discussing an upcoming trip to Greenland, second lady Usha Vance was spotted sitting in front of a shelf that featured a decidedly non-conservative book about climate change. As the Daily Beast notes, the video published to the official "SLOTUS" — that is, second lady of the United States — account contains a hilarious and seemingly accidental easter egg: a copy of former vice president Al Gore's 1992 book "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit." As Gore's first treatise on climate change, "Earth in the Balance" accurately predicted the catastrophic conditions we now find ourselves in more than 30 years later. Less popular than "An Inconvenient Truth," the book released in tandem with the former VP's documentary of the same name in 2006, Gore's first environmental manifesto is more of a deep cut for the climate crowd. As such, it's wild to see it sitting there in plain view on the shelf behind a second lady whose husband — and his boss — are guttin ... Read full article.