Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
AL GOREThe moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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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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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.
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Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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I don’t really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.
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Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.
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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 know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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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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Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.
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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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Take it from me: Elections matter.
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It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
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The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
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For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
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Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.
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I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
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Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
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The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed…. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
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Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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