A zebra can not change it’s spots.
AL GOREThe 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.
More Al Gore Quotes
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The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
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We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.
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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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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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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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We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.
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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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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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I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
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I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.
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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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As 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.”
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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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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
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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 ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
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I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
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I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
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The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
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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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