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.
AL GOREToday I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
More Al Gore Quotes
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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Take it from me, every vote counts.
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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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In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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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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A zebra does not change its spots.
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I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
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Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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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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The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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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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We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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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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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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Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
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As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
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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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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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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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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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Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.
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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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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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