Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
AL GOREAs many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.”
More Al Gore Quotes
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Take it from me: Elections matter.
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We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
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Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
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We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
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Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.
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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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The will to act is a renewable resource.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.
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When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
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