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.
AL GOREWe have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
More Al Gore Quotes
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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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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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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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We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.
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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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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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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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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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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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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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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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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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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Take it from me: Elections matter.
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