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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

Al Gore

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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Enemy Global Ourselves Struggle War
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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Acceptance People President Reason Truth
A zebra does not change its spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love
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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Atheist Country Faith People Religious Right
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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Challenge Face Imagination Moral Myself Planet World
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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Attention Planet
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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Change Each Other Live Solution Way
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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Area Digital Myself Priority Privacy Secret
I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
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Enough Growth Myself Old
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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Development Goodness Need Technology Wait
The will to act is a renewable resource.
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Act Renewable Resource Willing
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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Environment Impact Kind Product
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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Argument Fact Law Side Yourself
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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Fight Global International Movie People
I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.
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Climate Focus Myself Possible Solve
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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Day Internet Invention Myself
We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.
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Business Liquid Operation Planet
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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Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
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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Earth Freedom Infrastructure Limitation
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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Creation Dangerous Global Nature Quick Science Warning
We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
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Problem Run Solution Time
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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Climate Crisis Democracy Solve
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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Future Moral Myself Nation Obligation Safety
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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Character Dangerous Expression Opportunity Symbol
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Division Fear Hate Replacement Result
A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love Spots
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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Civilization Future Life Ourselves

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