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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A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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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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Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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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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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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The will to act is a renewable resource.
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I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.
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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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Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.
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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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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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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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