Irena Sendler overlooked for Al Gore

I recently watched the film made on Irena Sendler, Catholic Polish Social Worker in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw during WW2. A remarkable women who managed to smuggle 2500 children out of the ghetto, provided them with false documents and housing outside the ghetto. She was arrested and tortured, but managed to escape. In 2007 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Who could be more entitled to such an honour? She was a sure winner. After reading up on her life, I discovered that she did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, but it was awarded to Al Gore, as well as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change. Ok, please don't misunderstand, I am a passionate advocate for all things environmental. If I could build a house again it would be "green". We have solar panels for all our workers' geysers. We are in the process of erecting a windturbine and we are looking into more solar panels. I've seen the movie of Al Gore and thought it a very enlightening piece of work. So all and all, nothing against the winners, but can we really compare the effort they put into their research with that of a woman who put her own life on the line, not once as most heroes do, but 2500 times over months? Are we so obsessed with the buzz of climate change that we have lost our own humanity? Are we still shocked when we hear of a rape, a murder, child trafficking, child prostitution, genoside etc? Or have we become so numb to violence that when someone risks his/her own life for others that we see it as "old news". May it never be. A lot of my art is about violence, and yes it may not be in everyone's taste. But it is my tool to make the world aware  - yes, we need to look after the environment, but also after humanity too. All in balance. Irena Sendler, I salute you.